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Self taught = no imposter syndrome? (self.experienced_devs)
submitted 1 year ago by firelizzard to c/experienced_devs
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I am a self-taught programmer and I do not have imposter syndrome. I have a degree in electrical engineering and when I thought that was going to be my career I did have imposter syndrome, so I'm not immune. I wonder if there's a correlation. It seems that many if not most professionals suffer from imposter syndrome; I wonder if that's related to the way they learned.

When I say self-taught, I don't mean I never took a class, I mean the majority of my programming skill was learned by doing/outside of classes. I took a Java class in high school that helped me graduate from procedural languages to OOP, and I took classes in college but with few exceptions the ones that were practical (vs theoretical) covered material I already knew.

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[–] MagicShel 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm self taught and have pretty bad imposter syndrome. Don't think that's the magic bullet.

[–] Zikeji 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also self taught. Also imposter syndrome.

[–] charolastra 1 points 11 months ago

Same here. I do think I'm getting over it though, and possibly quicker than the boot campers.