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An Anonymous Coward writes:

My question is for the professional programmers. Can someone become a good programmer without going through formalized education, like college, or are self-taught programmers ineffective? I am going back and forth on whether it is worth the time investment in doing self-education. There are many open-source projects that could use help, and there is a trove of code from which to learn. As a professional, would you be excited or worried about working with self-taught talent?