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> I don't see the future being bright for this discipline if the sentiment is that that is all it takes.

Building web apps isn't rocket science lol. You're just positioning divs on a screen and building basic CRUD apps.

You can indeed learn most of what you need in 3 months. The rest is learned with experience in the real world.

Exactly I think there are different types of jobs. If you just need to make a basic web site I am sure you can learn those skills in a few months. Being able to build real systems is another matter entirely and requires a lot of learning (formal or not) and years of experience. For me this is the difference between a developer and a software engineer.

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