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A comment on Who Needs a Computer Science Degree When There’s Wikipedia?.

Re:Who Needs a Computer Science Degree When There’s Wikipedia? by babul on Sunday June 22, 2008 @12:44PM (#224277)
One of the best things about doing any degree is the people you meet and the interactions you have with them.

Many a friendship/company/network are born from these relationships and often are beneficial to you throughout life.

No matter how good they are, Wikipedia et al cannot offer this.

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Re:Who Needs a Computer Science Degree When There’s Wikipedia? by gojomo on Sunday June 22, 2008 @04:42PM (#224413)
But maybe other networking and cooperation forums, online and off, can also replace that function of degree programs?

If you can decompose traditional degree-granting education into its constituent parts -- true learning, certification, networking, socialization -- each may in the future be better served by new structures that take as a given the computer and communications technology we have now.

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