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Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by deepaksurti on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:19AM (#21106874)
Definitely can vouch anecdotally, that dropping out of college, is a weak signal, after all the solid content you have published[0].

I read your Practical Compiler Construction combined with Elements of computing systems [2] and that was a great combo!

[0] https://www.t3x.org/index.html

[1] https://www.t3x.org/reload/index.html

[2] https://www.nand2tetris.org

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Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by Medicalidiot on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:56AM (#21107043)
My experience in undergrad was that more often than not people who dropped out did it because they didn't want to put the work into school. An acquaintance of mine told me he was dropping out because school was "too much work". I'm not saying that dropping out of college is a bad thing, but the reason why one drops out of college is telling.
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