<div dir="ltr">While these coding crash courses advertise a simple and easy path, the transition is actually a lot more complicated. Like the anecdotes in the Journal article, I too am a self-taught software engineer. And the reality is there’s no three-month course (intensive or otherwise) that can magically turn someone into a top engineer. The first 10,000 hours alone merely catch you up to your key competition for developer positions, the recent computer science grads.<div>
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