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I'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
by enjo 17y ago
I'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.