No CS Degree
Interviews with successful self-taught and bootcamp coders
No CS Degree launched on July 23, 2019 with 134 votes, #190 of 3,007 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
What it does
Discover how successful coders have learned with no CS degree by reading in-depth, exclusive interviews with them. Featuring the maker of the Kanye dating app, an Austrian making 150k at 22, the PH Inclusion award winner and the maker of a wellness extension.
Read inspiring interviews with successful self-taught developers and bootcamp grads. Find your Junior Software Engineer job with our job board.
Matthias was earning a low wage at a cinema with his friend. Then he saw his friend make 4x more Ben went from relying on no-code tools to learning to code with Odin Project. In this interview he talks Gaurav is a self-taught developer who learned to code without a degree. His coding talents led him to leave Andrew Davison is a self-taught developer who is using AI to advance his coding knowledge. He's already Wouter is a self-taught developer who makes $145k a year from niche job boards. He learned to code after Kourosh is a self-taught developer who is making $6k a month from his apps while working full-time. Keep Kapehe changed career from Flight Attendant to become a Software Developer…from nocsdegree.com
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