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yeah, this is right. you don't need any college if you just want to be a programmer, but if you want to cool stuff that provably optimal, you need a degree for
by kapauldo 17y ago
yeah, this is right. you don't need any college if you just want to be a programmer, but if you want to cool stuff that provably optimal, you need a degree for that. the theoretical foundation for anything (and especially CS) is wondeful and interesting and immeasurably valuable, but completely unnecessary for a vocational coder. if you want to be more than a vocational coder, college, and even masters and phd are absolutely worth doing.
- enjo 17y agoI'm going to quibble: You don't need a degree for that. I do agree that you need a solid understanding of computing fundamentals. However, you hardly "need" a degree for that. Far to many college drop-outs have built hugely scalable and highly optimized systems for that.
- benmathes 17y agoYou're just arguing semantics. You're both saying "you need the knowledge you'll gain from earning a good degree".
- kapauldo 17y agoi'll agree with this. i'm just trying to dissuade young people from dropping out of college to "pursue their dreams." CS is not obvious or trivial stuff, even though learning to scrap together a website in Rails might be. and the two are not the same.