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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by rootusrootus on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:45AM (#25468142)
Not the author, but I will say that in my experience having the paper has helped open a lot of doors, especially early in my career, that I otherwise would have had to push harder to get through. It gives you a bit of default credibility. Perhaps unjustified, that's a matter of opinion, but it's definitely real.
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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by brighton36 on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:50AM (#25468182)
Just seems like a competent GitHub serves the job better, at lower cost...
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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by rootusrootus on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:59AM (#25468316)
Hardly. The only people who care about your GitHub are technical people. Most of the gatekeepers at any decent size company are not going to care one bit about GitHub, but they will recognize the degree. By the time you get to the hiring manager the degree doesn't matter. It's getting to that level that's the obstacle.

And frankly, when you have more experience, GitHub is also useless, because your network matters 1000x more than your portfolio.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by brighton36 on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:11AM (#25468442)
That I get. Habitus is important. But, here, there was no transmission of habitus, due to the online courses.
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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by rootusrootus on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:33AM (#25468694)
> Habitus is important.

Agree, though I think the value will depend significantly on the person. For some folks this will be the majority of the value, others it'll be wasted on.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by brighton36 on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:02PM (#25469110)
It really seems like an a society, we should just offer habitus reform schools in deficient precincts..
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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by jacurtis on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:21PM (#25470135)
There are still a lot of jobs unfortunately that won't even look at your impressive github account if you don't have a degree.

I built my career for 10 years without a degree. It is doable. But having a degree (got it at 32) made life A LOT easier.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by Jochim on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:49PM (#25470456)
The first people to look at your CV probably don't know what Github is.

The degree is a checkbox for recruiters/HR who are looking to match a job spec before passing you onto the engineering team.

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