Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free

Re:Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free by nirvana on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @12:39PM (#2891828)

I've found little correlation between diplomas and effectiveness as a programmer in my hiring. So, that includes people who are self taught. I may be in the minority, and I think that people who have diplomas sometimes have the opinion that anyone who didn't go thru the pain they went thru is missing something.

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Re:Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free by coecoventures on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @10:32PM (#2893794)

I'm an old dog so there were no CS classes at my middle school when I started programming. Naturally I have a bias towards those who took matters into their own hands and are self-taught.

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Re:Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free by silverbax88 on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @01:17PM (#2892011)

ditto for me. I've actually found after years of interviewing that on average, self-taught programmers are almost always better. Not always true of course, but usually true.

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Re:Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free by __rkaup__ on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @05:59PM (#2893076)

Interesting. I wonder how much that skews hiring, including in other fields.

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