Who is a self taught programmer here? Like conpletely self taught.

i repaired computers for a year which was also self taught. then programming. thanks to newbostonacademy on youtube. bucky, you are the best.

i am self taught but i hardly consider myself as a programmer yet

@kimailis you are making me think now haha

I guess majority of devRanters, college teachers doesn't teach much.

@Aitkotw yeah i wanted to know those who never went to college

@eshwarenm I did good admission but, teaching was soo bad that I eventually stopped going.
So, in a way you can count me in as well. xD

@Aitkotw no probs! i dont give out stickers tho hahha

@eshwarenm What!! You don't?!? I was really hoping for one. =_=

@Aitkotw you didnt read the fine prints. but i have billion dollar app idea. if you build it for me for free i will give you 10%. 🤣

@eshwarenm Nah buddy, I'm happy with my trillion dollar start-up. I ain't greedy bro.

Self taught reporting in.

@Aitkotw :( im only starting on my trillion dollar idea next week

I wanted to change stuff, so I began changing stuff.

o/

Bought a c++ book at 12. Didn't get around to it until I learned that wiremod taught me programming fundamentals

It depends on how exactly to interpret self taught. Anything you want to learn you can learn it without any teacher instructing you. If you'd buy a book on C++, read it, do it, learn it, are you then self taught? Or did the book author inidirectly teach you?

I consider myself to be self taught however I did get a solid education and degree in software engineering later on completely through self study.

Does half of a codecademy course and asking a co-worker for side projects count? If so, then yes.

I'm mostly self-taught.

I played with Pascal then studied it as part of a computer studies course, along with other languages...

But most of the time I'd be done with the tasks that were set quite quickly and would end up helping my classmates with their work.

Since then I've learned loads more things about programming and even other non dev tasks.

I am conpletely self taught

Self taught as well.

Fell in love with frontend design and development, data visualization and web analytics. Now I also work heavily with web accessibility due to Canadian disability laws.

Quickly learned in front end tho that I enjoy design through coding over pure graphic design via Illustrator or Photoshop.

I would much rather slice and dice complex layouts into code or work with HTML Canvas rather than be the one to "make the logo" design in Illustrator or Photoshop.

I'm entirely self taught. I've been working with HTML/CSS/JS for close to twenty years. I started learning it in junior high and kept up with it through high school. Along the way I learned Flash, Photoshop, and thought I wanted to do graphic design, so that's what I went to college for. Along the way I started to learn Python and PHP, and dove deeper into ActionScript and Flash. When I realized that graphic design is a competitive field if you want to be paid well, I started looking for tech jobs that played into my coding skills, and I've been coding professionally since 2010.

@arpit1997 saw what you did there

I consider myself to be self taught programmer. I studies electronic and telecommunication much about radar and VLSI. I never studied C or Java and just picked it up over job. I first programmed in MATLAB, which still is my first love. And I don't regret the decision so far.

Fun fact. I am on my way to Oracle developer conference as I write. !!

🙋Me!

Me. 18 years ago I taught myself whilst doing 16-17 hour shifts as a security guard :). I was always I interested, so decided to buy a book and go for it. A couple of years and, 10 or so books later and a couple of personal projects l bagged myself my first junior role. Happy days.

Schools for nerds, I'm I right! 😂

Entirely self taught here.

*waves* books from the library. Borked computers. Lots of fun.

I did study it at school / college / uni (I dropped out), but the programming side of it I was already solid on, the formal education was a box ticking exercise.

if you started programming in college you are self taught only

100% self taught dev dealing with school because I need the damn degree to even be considered for a job anywhere.

I don't mean to sound too arrogant but I see the people I am getting my degree with. I can code a circle around them before they could print hello world.

I'm joining the club as well

I learned to program last year.

Henlo

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Human anatomist by training.
Turned analyst/Sql Dev and then moved in DBA/ devops work.

aye count one to the force

Me

*raises hand*
Took an AP Computer Science class in highschool (Java,) and then a Python class in college but didn't learn too much from them. Then while in college, I started at a tech company as an intern, then got hired on a full-time Analyst, and then promoted to a Software Engineer from there after teaching myself

Metoo i learned cics with vsam Database in a vms system from IBM

Im Self-teaching (me?).

I am all self taught with the exception of C being taught by a college.

*raise hand*
Started with qBasic on Windows 3.11, then onwards from there all Googling (or Altavista) the rest.

Me :)

@alphanerd Spot on!

I left school at 16 and have been coding professionally for nearly 20 years. I'm too cool for school.

great response! now I should really consider giving out stickers haha

Self-taught for 13 years. Not a day of school. But I'm not done learning yet!

This is very interesting to see!

I’m self taught too.

Pretty much, only classes I took are high school Java, most of which I already knew or looked up.

I took a few classes, but I've taught myself almost everything.