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these have nothing to do with coding skills! any degree will get you those skills. project planning, deadlines, networking, dealing with people, etc. college w
by blondin 7y ago
these have nothing to do with coding skills!
any degree will get you those skills. project planning, deadlines, networking, dealing with people, etc. college will always give you access to people.
what is missing is basically easy & sometimes free access to knowledge. god i miss having access to nearly any library and all these books, and all these publications you can print for free. i still have a trove of PDFs on a USB stick somewhere...
and also all the discounts you get on most software. poor student me would have never had the monies to buy full visual studio back then...
- sircastor 7y agoI'm a self-taught programmer and finishing my BS in Software Engineering right now. Something I never appreciated in my career or my first go at college was the value of access to academic papers. There is so much knowledge available in academia that's locked away from the general public. Quite frankly a lot of that knowledge ends up duplicates effort because you can't get to it otherwise.
- blondin 7y agoi agree. academia needs to make this knowledge available to the public. who knows what a genius out there who doesn't have access to this knowledge can do with it? maybe we will be far ahead of where we are now, but i am just dreaming now...