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I like your post and think it's valid, but I would say that coding in high school/college doesn't prepare you for the real world at all. In high school I was h
by sf_rob 11y ago
I like your post and think it's valid, but I would say that coding in high school/college doesn't prepare you for the real world at all.
In high school I was hacking on silly personal projects. In college I was solving cool algorithms, puzzles, and games. But in the real world most programming roles are pretty menial / not a super exciting domain / consist largely of process, code reviews, QA, debugging.
- jacalata 11y agoMy friend has a HR degree where she got to study psychology and organizational principles and how to motivate people and run a business, and now she does paperwork all day managing employee sick time and vacation time and making sure all their certifications are up to date. I'd be surprised if any degree fully prepares students for just how much menial work they'll be doing, partly because those bits don't require a university course to learn.