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Why teaching yourself to code is better than a CS degree * Far cheaper, no debt accumulated * Follow your bliss in learning what you want, but still with the
by hirundo 7y ago
Why teaching yourself to code is better than a CS degree
* Far cheaper, no debt accumulated
* Follow your bliss in learning what you want, but still with the option to absorb the best of the CS textbooks.
* Not compelled to learn languages and platforms behind the curve.
* Less able to lean on teammates, you learn to solve problems more independently.
* There's no illusion that your education has an end date, and that you can stop. Ever.
- leed25d 7y agoYou missed a few: * Poster candidate for Dunning-Kruger * Cheap and fast but low quality * Single pointed focus. More likely to be a one-language savant * Degrees are for chumps: this is a delusion.
- not2personal 7y agoMuch like Apple products, when people go to college they feel the need to defend that idea to the death. As surely they couldn't have been so silly to pay 100k to have someone stand in a big room and read the internet to them.
- asdf4123 7y ago>Cheap and fast but low quality He didnt say fast, he said cheaper. Purchasing book written by somebody who has 10 15 20 years of XP in industry may, indeed have higher quality. >More likely to be a one-language savant Languages aren't like like pokemons, so you dont have to "catch them all" Knowing more langugages outside the most mainstream like python js java and so on, of course may help you, but it ain't requirement if you want to be good at CS / SE.