Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Adept
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Apr 23 2025 10:03 am

On 22 Apr 2025 at 09:45p, Adept pondered and said...
 
 Ad>  bo> Same with programming, I learned it myself, and see people with degre
 Ad>  bo> who struggle to do what I taught myself.  Degrees are overrated.
 Ad> 
 Ad> I've viewed degrees as minimums.
 Ad> 
 Ad> E.g., a high school degree isn't a guarantee that someone is competent;
 Ad> it's just proof that you were able to sit through classes through a
 Ad> certain age, and that reduces some of the risk people would take in
 Ad> hiring someone.
 Ad> 
 Ad> And same with a college education, except that there's a _little_ more
 Ad> on what people would have had to have learned in order to make it
 Ad> through.
 Ad> 
 Ad> And, so, a degree isn't a requirement for being good at programming;
 Ad> it's just that it's a way of easily dismissing a group of people that
 Ad> will be 90%+ people with little to no programming skills.
 Ad> 
 Ad> So the degree becomes important. Not because of the skills, but because
 Ad> it's a sieve for people doing hiring decisions.
 Ad> 
 Ad> That said, I _did_ get a lot out of my master's program, and I certainly
 Ad> left it knowing more than I did going into it. Even though, going into
 Ad> it, I was already plenty techy, if worse at programming.
 Ad> 
 Ad> Obviously, if people are making something on their own, degrees are only
 Ad> useful for the information gained, or if the degree lends some level of
 Ad> prestige that can be used for marketing purposes.
 Ad> 
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