Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree
by shawabawa3 on Friday August 17, 2012 @05:35AM
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> Remarkably, I've yet to meet one of these effortlessly self-educated men of the Internet age.
In my experience, pretty much anyone who can program well is self-educated. They might have also done a CS degree, but most of them were programming on their own beforehand.
Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree
by lmm on Friday August 17, 2012 @05:55AM
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The mechanics of programming are usually self-taught, but able to write code that compiles != educated. In my experience those with degrees in mathematics or physics tend to be much better at producing value through programming than those without.
Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree
by chmike on Friday August 17, 2012 @03:24AM
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence. What has changed in the last 20 years is Internet. My son surprize me with the thing he learned from the internet.
Though it is also true that the things he learned are limited to what catched his curiosity. With classical education you get a more wider and uniform education, but also more shallow than if you dig the knowledge by yourself.
Note also that education plays only a significant role in hiring the next few years after it. After that it's what you have achieved and your expertize domain that become the most relevant.
Libraries and textbooks did exist back then, you know. Your comment comes significantly too early.