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Comment on Ask HN: How did famous college drop-outs learn CS despite dropping out?

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They learned to do their jobs, by doing their jobs.

Second point: Your examples aren't really people who rose on their programming skills, are they? They rose on directing the work of others, not just programmers; they had to be able to speak the language in depth but the actual skills leading to their successes are the political and people skills that cooperative enterprises require.

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