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Generally speaking, it's not that it's impossible someone who doesn't go to school will learn things, it is just less likely. I generally expect a greater degr
by gte910h 16y ago
Generally speaking, it's not that it's impossible someone who doesn't go to school will learn things, it is just less likely.
I generally expect a greater degree of people who went to school (therefore COULD benefit from instruction) have a higher chance of foundational knowledge helpful in a computer based career.
At the same time, I met dozens of nitwits while at school who can't code their way out of a paper bag and misunderstood half their classes.
School increases their likelihood of being good, it doesn't guarantee it.
- entangld 16y agoThe most difficult thing about self-teaching is where to start and what to read. If there were recipes for learning all major concepts in every discipline (currently working on this) self-teaching would be much faster and easier for everyone.
- freshfunk 16y agoYeah, I alluded to this but didn't want to get into the thick of it. Degrees are like filters. I've done a lot of resume reading in my time, filtering through candidates for jobs. It's mindboggling how many responses one gets. Literally hundreds. And that wasn't my full time job (which was software development). At the point that you're looking at hundreds of responses, you start applying certain filters so that you can increase your probability of finding what you want. Typically the initial filter is something that doesn't require a lot of time. For many, this tends to be if they have a CS degree.