Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Sahil Gaba, 33, was an entirely self-taught computer engineer with a mechanical-engineering background. Many new programmers who start in Gaba's shoes ...

Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, almost parted ways with Anthropic for good last summer. Instead, he has helped shape ...

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The problem is that when someone claims to be a 'self-taught' programmer, it's hard to know whether they mean they wrote a complete 3d engine from scratch or spent a weekend tinkering with PHP on ...

“From talking to self-taught programmers, I’ve found that one of their biggest sources of fear is the knowledge that they don’t have a degree. Non-traditional candidates are really intimidated by ...

WTF?! The biggest games today can cost more than movies, stretching well beyond the hundred-million-dollar mark. It also takes several years or more from the start of development to the final product ...

Click to expand... The issue is that a test that is a good proxy for capability for someone who has gone to school may not be a good proxy for someone who is self taught. A test that is sufficiently ...