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People (here at HN) seem to be relating not needing a college degree to not needing a computer science degree. There is a huge difference though with degrees f
by YooLi 16y ago
People (here at HN) seem to be relating not needing a college degree to not needing a computer science degree. There is a huge difference though with degrees for pre-med (biology, bio-chem, etc.), electrical engineering, civil engineering, nuclear engineering, etc. You definitely need those degrees if that's the field you are pursuing.
- pjscott 16y agoI have an electrical engineering degree, and looking back on it, there's really not much there that you couldn't learn just fine from the Internet -- if the material were readily available, and there were a community of people learning EE online. In order for that to happen, though, EE education would need to get its act together, and change quite a bit. It's frustrating to see how much better education could be, if only more fields would start using the internet properly. (Fun fact: I don't have a CS degree, but I'm taking graduate-level CS classes and doing fine. I know that CS it something you can learn well from the internet. I know what it feels like to learn the equivalent of an undergraduate degree online. And EE could be that way, too.)