Over 65 percent of new developers are self-taught. I’m surprised it’s not 100 percent

HackerRank today published the 2018 edition of its Student Developer Report. The survey, which looks at educational and language trends across over 10,000 students, has some interesting findings, the most fascinating of which is that over 65 percent of students are self-taught. 27.39 percent said they learned to code via self-directed learning. A further 37.70 percent said they learned via a combination of school and individual study. Only 31.90 percent said they only learned to code at school. It’s not even moderately surprising that self-teaching is so common among programmers. College degrees – although useful in many respects, such as…

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