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I've seen people say this alot these days, "Degree is not that important". But I kinda disagree with it.

I would rather say, "Grades" are not that important. You don't go to Engineering school just to learn programming.

Programming is something you learn to apply what you are learning at school.

You need it all. A degree can get you over the "you don't know what you don't know" hump that many self-taught programmers never get past. My lightbulb moment was linear programming. Up 'til then I was a competent programmer, mind, but suddenly a whole new world opened up, I had no idea you could do this stuff by any means other than brute force...

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