Subj : Re: New to this
To   : boraxman
From : Warpslide
Date : Tue Apr 22 2025 06:42 pm

On 23 Apr 2025, boraxman said the following...
 
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 bo> On 22 Apr 2025 at 09:45p, Adept pondered and said...
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 bo>  Ad>  bo> Same with programming, I learned it myself, and see people with 
 bo>  Ad>  bo> who struggle to do what I taught myself.  Degrees are overrated.
 bo>  Ad> 
 bo>  Ad> I've viewed degrees as minimums.
 bo>  Ad> 
 bo>  Ad> E.g., a high school degree isn't a guarantee that someone is competen
 bo>  Ad> it's just proof that you were able to sit through classes through a
 bo>  Ad> certain age, and that reduces some of the risk people would take in
 bo>  Ad> hiring someone.
 bo>  Ad> 
 bo>  Ad> And same with a college education, except that there's a _little_ mor
 bo>  Ad> on what people would have had to have learned in order to make it
 bo>  Ad> through.
 bo>  Ad> 
 bo>  Ad> And, so, a degree isn't a requirement for being good at programming;
 bo>  Ad> it's just that it's a way of easily dismissing a group of people that
 bo>  Ad> will be 90%+ people with little to no programming skills.
 bo>  Ad> 
 bo>  Ad> So the degree becomes important. Not because of the skills, but becau
 bo>  Ad> it's a sieve for people doing hiring decisions.
 bo>  Ad> 
 bo>  Ad> That said, I _did_ get a lot out of my master's program, and I certai
 bo>  Ad> left it knowing more than I did going into it. Even though, going int
 bo>  Ad> it, I was already plenty techy, if worse at programming.
 bo>  Ad> 
 bo>  Ad> Obviously, if people are making something on their own, degrees are o
 bo>  Ad> useful for the information gained, or if the degree lends some level 
 bo>  Ad> prestige that can be used for marketing purposes.
 bo>  Ad> 
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 bo> Further education can be a liability too, as people are tau.ecalpkrow
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This one wasn't cut off, but did get scrambled somehow.

.... Several excuses are always less convincing than one

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