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Discussion on: What are your impressions of your self-taught co-workers?

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Ludo Hartzema

Personally I think that teaching yourself is a skill that cannot be teached in school.
No matter what kind of a programming background you have, you're never finished learning.

I am self taught and am still teaching myself new stuff all the time. The latter is what really matters. If you cannot keep teaching yourself you will fall behind. This implies for self taught programmers as much as programmers with a formal educational background.