How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree

Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree by shawabawa3 on Friday August 17, 2012 @05:35AM (#4395650)

> 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.

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Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree by lmm on Friday August 17, 2012 @05:55AM (#4395677)

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.

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