Is college degree or college diploma is the key of being a programmer or just yourself ?

Question

Getting your opinion about writing programs.

Answer 1

Interestingly this article states that a quater of all professional programmers don't have a bachelor's degree.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/stack-overflow-2018-developer-survey-faac8d3eb357

And of the professional developers who have a bachelor’s degree, 1 in 3 have a major unrelated to computer science or software engineering

Answer 2

@Louis thank you