Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Wondering if you should be a self-taught programmer, if you should attend a coding bootcamp, or if you should get a computer science degree? In this video, ex-Google and ex-Facebook software engineer Clement Mihailescu compares these three options and determines which one is the best.

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