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Re:How One High School Grad Studied Computer Science Debt-Fr... by duaneb on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:17PM (#9185681)
This is crap. Yes, CS has important theory you won't learn about in "hacker school", but it's not like the (ridiculously expensive) education itself is necessary. Everything you need is on wikipedia and stackoverflow.
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Re:How One High School Grad Studied Computer Science Debt-Fr... by Kalium on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:19PM (#9185702)
In theory, you don't need college to learn much of anything. In practice, few people are going to correctly teach themselves discrete mathematics within a reasonable timeframe.
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Re:How One High School Grad Studied Computer Science Debt-Fr... by duaneb on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:33PM (#9185865)
I disagree. I'm not sure what the added value of college is aside from graded evaluation.
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Re:How One High School Grad Studied Computer Science Debt-Fr... by Kalium on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:37PM (#9185908)
A graded evaluation is valuable, agreed. I submit that instructors, peers, and an instructional environment are also of value in aiding the learning process.
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Re:How One High School Grad Studied Computer Science Debt-Fr... by duaneb on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:45PM (#9185985)
And yet, people do not go to college for an education, they go for a degree. Which is useless for determining education.
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Re:How One High School Grad Studied Computer Science Debt-Fr... by Kalium on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:48PM (#9186011)
The degree is evidence of a graded evaluation, which is a proxy for education. Despite some propaganda to the contrary, it is not a zero-correlation proxy.

Also, I don't know about you, but I went to college for an education. Which I received.

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