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I think this is a part of the bigger problem, which is the lack of support for continuing education. Our culture expects you to spend 20 years in daily school a
by mips_avatar 8y ago
I think this is a part of the bigger problem, which is the lack of support for continuing education. Our culture expects you to spend 20 years in daily school and then just stop. How are you supposed to maintain relevant skills for 40-50 years of work this way?
- look_mom_its_me 8y agoThe worst part is that no credit is given for very reputable MOOC's at all. A few years ago I took MIT's "Computational Thinking with Python" MOOC because I got my high-school kid into it and wanted to go through it with him so I could motivate and help him. I even presented that certificate, and it was rejected: "We don't recognize MOOC's". The irony is thick and wide. And so, again, having, at the very least, done the MIT course they force you to undergo the torture of "Fundamentals of Programming" 1 and 2 and the other truly elementary beyond description stuff. This is truly frustrating. And support is useless. They take five days to answer any question and they must have so many students they have no time to pay attention to anything. I have literally received answers having nothing to do with my query. Considering dropping out before it starts. The idea of spending a year and a half "learning" about loops and arrays grinds my raw to the bone. At a fundamental ethical level it is, in my opinion, wrong.
- mips_avatar 8y agoI saw a new udemy course that teaches c++. It would be pretty good for me because a lot of related projects to mine are using multithreaded c++. And I think this course would help me be a better teammate. But my company wouldn’t pay for a udemy course. Not sure if that’s on my company or udemy though.