I'll be done with college next year, but I really don't want to go forward professionally in Economics. I don't have a formal CS education,, but I've gained some sort of gestalt by programming for a while and going through blog articles and following up on interesting things. I'd love to get into software development professionally, but I don't have a formal degree. What should I do?
As a person who has to use a Screen Reader, math in PDFs is almost impossible to read for me. The problem is almost insurmountable if the PDF is a collection of images, but even if it is a LaTeX-generated PDF, reading anything but the simplest of equations is very, very hard. In these cases, having the LaTeX source to read is a godsend.
To the authors who publish the source of their books: thank you, thank you. I cannot express how grateful I am. To anyone who is related to /working in the publisher space: it would be incredibly useful if there was a process to get the LaTeX source of books upon request, although I understand how copyrights/etc might make this difficult.
Some other books I would like to point out for being open source: Apex Calculus, Open Data Structures.
If I want to go into software development, how harmful will this be for me? is there anything I can do to offset the lack of a CS degree?