Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree?
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 18 hours agoI once thought like you. But you learn algorithms, theory, math, and practice all this way outside what you normally do. It’s a much “broader” and less narrow education that you give yourself to complete some project you are working towards. You don’t know what you don’t know. So there is real value. Besides that it is also a test and a qualification, although that really depends on the university.
brax@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I dunno, I went to college and the first thing they did was give me the book list… Felt like sitting down to a game of poker and buddy across the table just shows their whole hand 😂
Obviously in school you’d have the benefit of a teacher to assist you when you need help understanding things, but you could potentially also get that through message forums and the like.
Sure not everybody has the drive for self study, and I’m sure some topics get much more complex in university… But college at least felt like a total waste of my time and money. Just wish I knew at the time that employers would care so much about a piece of paper instead of making people prove their skills instead lol
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Well you’re also “made to practice” these cray things. Like e.g. attend a lecture, then homework is “write a compiler for X language”. Which at the time to me who was unfamiliar with things out of my field of interest seemed crazy.
Of course many coast by without learning much in group projects. But you ultimately learn for yourself, not for your employer. Speaking as someone from a country where higher education is free of course lol.
But ultimately even if you want to start your own IT business I’d still recommend studying IT. Plus marketing.