Re:A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?
by ggambetta on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:30AM
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> I don't think my college education has been anywhere near as valuable to me as reading software engineering books and coding a lot
But how would you know that? I thought I was a pretty decent programmer when I started college - I had been programming since I was 5! But a five-year engineering degree gave me some much-needed structure around the things I already knew, and filled massive gaps in knowledge I didn't even know I had.
But how would you know that? I thought I was a pretty decent programmer when I started college - I had been programming since I was 5! But a five-year engineering degree gave me some much-needed structure around the things I already knew, and filled massive gaps in knowledge I didn't even know I had.