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I consider myself a self-taught developer even though I hold a CS degree. The reason is, what is taught in college is not always up the standard required by the
by gautamkumar 14y ago
I consider myself a self-taught developer even though I hold a CS degree. The reason is, what is taught in college is not always up the standard required by the industry.
The only thing I learnt from college was the list of topics that needed to be studied. I spent time learning those things practically on my own.
That was the thing that helped me land a job immediately after college.
So I would say that a college CS degree is really a subjective, It depends on the person and the college.
Any self-taught developer who has the interest to improve him/her self can and will learn the foundations eventually.
- autotravis 14y agoExactly. My university's CS department had just enough "time" to skim over the big topics (one database class, really??) while we ran around trying to please non-CS profs in classes that weren't really necessary for me (two chem classes and physics). I'm all for general knowledge, but if I need to know anything about chemistry (which I haven't yet in my role as a web dev), then I can go learn it, or change my major and focus on it.
- Evbn 14y agoThe goal of a college education is to learn how to learn, so you can stop paying people to teach you. Becoming an independent learners isn't in spite of college, it is the goal.
- gautamkumar 14y agoI wish they told me that in college ! :-)