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>I'm on the fence. Not initially, sure. But there are embedded lessons that click later.

College can give you a great baseline to build upon. I can't tell you the number of developers with 10 years experience and a degree that I've interviewed who could't explain what database normalization was.

Having said that, the vast, vast, vast majority of stuff I know I learned "on the streets."




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