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Huh, I'd expect the self taught person to be more capable of teaching themselves the codebase than the CS grad, especially once you get into companies doing bog
by Macha 4y ago
Huh, I'd expect the self taught person to be more capable of teaching themselves the codebase than the CS grad, especially once you get into companies doing bog standard CRUD API + SPA webapp for a SaaS.
It's the new grads from courses that are theory heavy and practice light that expect a lecturer or tutor to guide them through the whole process in my experience.
- shmatt 4y agoFrom personal experience only: Self taught people (Bootcamps are included here) are self taught to perform in the very specific tool-heavy world. Think Create React App + AWS. It's harder for them to independently understand bigger decisions/system design/building something from the ground up CS grads know how to study, know when they are really stuck, and know what the good questions to ask when stuck are. They were thrown into this impossible course work and survived, they're better at studying complex systems, and to clearly define what exactly they do and dont understand Bootcamp grads? they just need you to share a code snippet of exactly what you asked them to do in a different place in the codebase You could explain 10 times why you chose to build the new microservices in Clojure and they still won't get it People mistake self taught with understands complex software problems. Usually from what i've worked with, self taught is self taught to copy paste some commands into npm
- wizofaus 4y agoThen their university/college has failed them. Learning how to think/learn/work independently should be the primary goal of tertiary education. It almost doesn't matter too much what your degree was in.