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you take this too far. i agree that it's possible to learn CS without taking courses, but i don't think that CS courses are useless. if you can learn CS witho
by andylei 17y ago
you take this too far. i agree that it's possible to learn CS without taking courses, but i don't think that CS courses are useless.
if you can learn CS without a course, i don't see how taking a course would hurt. your argument is based on CS courses teaching you the wrong thing, but if that's true, then you're equally, if not more likely, to learn the wrong thing if you just learn on your own.
if you were hiring a programmer and you had two candidates were exactly the same, except that one had a degree in CS from, say, Stanford, would you really be indifferent between the two?
- ErrantX 17y agoDepends on what the other candidate had done. If they were identical in every way potentially I would take the CS candidate. But that is a straw man argument ;) With a group of newly graduated candidates (and we have been hiring programmers recently so this is from experience), assuming "newly graduated" means they have a degree of some sort, the CS majors tend to be, in my experience, the weakest real world programmers. Engineers and physicists are the best.