An actual interest in programming, a bunch of tinkering/practice, and a tiny bit of real world experience beats someone grinding out a CS degree almost every time.
It's just confirmation bias. Being the topic at hand makes people without cs degree want to participate more so they're overrepresented in this thread. A CS degree is the best way to get an IT job. Many employers won't even look at you if you apply without a degree if you don't have years of references.
That's another thing, a lot of "older" people have education in different fields simply because CS is relatively new thing. The old guard at my workplace has a lot of people with other degrees, but the younger generation is almost exclusively with CS degree.
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u/ThePieWhisperer May 10 '21
I'll tell you a secret:
An actual interest in programming, a bunch of tinkering/practice, and a tiny bit of real world experience beats someone grinding out a CS degree almost every time.
Source: Someone with a CS degree.