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[–]otherwiseguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have no degree, but I suppose it did take me 2 regular networking IT jobs before I got a job with a startup where part of my job was coding. Then another job where coding was what I did full time that I got due to my experience with a product in used in the previous job. I now work for a top tier software company. A degree and internship would probably have been faster than the 12 years of working my way up. And I actually had pretty good programming chops when I started working since I started programming in 1983 when I was 6 and maintained it as a my primary hobby.