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I'm not sure I follow. So you have programming "education" through online courses, but you are essentially not sure whether you have made any professional gains
by wahsd 11y ago
I'm not sure I follow. So you have programming "education" through online courses, but you are essentially not sure whether you have made any professional gains from it?
I think I am hearing that you are disillusioned by the rather unstructured and disorderly state in which online "MOOC" type education is. There is no quality or accuracy assurance due to a lack of common standards and practices, and there is essentially no means for replicating a curriculum across systems and content.
Is that about right? Or is there some other issue I am missing why you would rather load yourself up with tens of thousands dollars for a brick-and-mortar education?
I'm by not means a fan of this subject approach, but I'm more generally curious about the issues.
- jarcane 11y agoIn a market where even people who have actual degrees struggle to overcome the experience demands, someone without even that is pretty much fucked, especially in a country like I live in where higher education is free. I have managed to be, briefly, employed on an internship basis, but that was short-lived, and once I started asking for and looking to more permanent positions suddenly the opportunities started looking more than a bit scarce. It seems like in an age of massive degree inflation, the self-taught basement hacker doesn't really have a place anymore, while a lot of those same basement hackers who actually made it and have been in the industry ten or twenty years keep giving the same bad "you don't need a degree" type advice.