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milbyte11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s more your ability to learn. I will probably never need to make my own linked list but learning how to taught me what pointers are.

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  • SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    School put me off going to uni. I don’t need to spend even more hours learning about the fucking benefits and drawbacks of token ring networks.

    Government tripling the cost of uni compared to the year before me was also a lot of it. Didn’t learn to drive because insurance alone was £2k which I didn’t have. Now you want me to spend £9k a year? Haha, nope.

    They tried to make it sound better by saying its like the cost of going to Starbucks every day. That put me off Starbucks too.

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  • tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think a lot of it is well roundedness and a good foundation for the later practical applications.

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    • StabbingSky@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I learned basically no practical knowledge with my IT bachelors. But every IT class of my associates degree was a certification prep course.

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      • tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Tbf, two year programs are great for specific careers.

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, but knowing how one works help you get a fuller understanding of data structures. And data structures is definitively something one will use (well, if you’re a back-end dev, anyway)

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  • milbyte11@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ehh, even people that retain literally nothing can get through college to get a paper

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    • AliOski@feddit.nl ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol, lmao even. Depends on the major and the university/college 😂

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe YOUR college

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  • Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lol as a drop out I thought linked list and binary sort were the apex of programming and useful in all context.

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• sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Except for the 1/4 of my classes that I skipped and still passed

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• xylol@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s surprisingly an issue when getting workers through an agency

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• the_q@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yup. Can you be a slave?

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• SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Surely having an employment history with jobs lasting more than a month also proves that?

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  • milbyte11@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    logically, but employers are rarely logical.

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There may be the odd bureaucratic company here and there that can not overlook a missing degree because there is no procedure for it. Generally though, previous employment is proof enough.
    Personally, I’d avoid the ones who demand to see one anyway because I wouldn’t be a good fit.

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