This is just wrong. I have a degree in Psychology and went into tech in the mid 90's. I had to learn everything on my own. Is it possible? Of course it is. But the amount of stuff I had to learn on my own was incredible. It is easy to learn how to write a little React program. It is however NOT easy to learn how to write a compiler without anyone to ask when you don't understand something.

Everyone always says, "You never use that in the 'real world'" What's funny is that the people who say that are the people who don't know they should use those concepts to solve some problems. That's what the real separation is between having one and not having one. Trying to explain, say, a discreet system to someone who has never even heard of it is hard. There is so much people who haven't gone through a cs program don't know.

I hope to think this, because I'm in this camp, but people without cs degrees can be good programmers. They just have to realize that it's not "Ha ha sucker, you spent 4 years learning something I did in 12 weeks." It's "I have to spend my nights and weekends for years learning what you concentrated in on college."