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Yes, actually I will. Lack of discipline that comes with the education is part of the reason GNU, Xorg, and various other projects are in their current states.
Would you want a doctor who never attended Medical School?
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Had you completed a basic Computer Science education track, you'd have taken a Senior level class called Software Engineering.
They teach you the basics about deliverables, requirements gathering, and project management.
Essentially, you learn all the phases of actually developing software from providing time-lines to delivering an installation media.
Hence the problem with Gnome 3. Who gathered the requirements? Who was the customer?
That being said, knowing how to do proper design, documentation, and testing is a MUST, and I've found, on the whole, those that are self taught will be severely lacking in at least one of these three key areas. I currently work as a defense contractor, and trust me, you learn very quickly how to document and test code properly. And I haven't even gone into requirements mapping yet (let alone defining what is and is not a requirement).
I've had the benefit of having co-workers who had the time to properly teach me how things work, how to do proper S/W design, and proper testing methodology. Most people don't, and it shows in the code they put out. They do an experimental hack that has a minor performance benefit in a single application, on a single set of H/W, and poof, it gets pulled upstream. Then sites like Phoronix dig up performance regressions, do an investigation, and manhours that could otherwise be spent fixing other more pressing problems are wasted trying to find said regression. Do this enough, and you can easily stall development by months/years due to the neverending hunt for extra performance.
Systems Architect isn't coding. It's building computers and loading operating systems.
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