On 03/26/2014 11:09 AM, Alexandros Nipirakis wrote: > I think its bizarre that so much importance is attached to degrees - > especially given that the knowledge gained from them is so temporal. Five > to ten years after the degree is granted, the words on it mean nothing. If >
I feel like this sentiment has been repeated a few times through out this thread, and I need to disagree with it. If this is true of your degree you went to the wrong place. I can't think of a single thing I learned in my computer classes that isn't still relevant. Could I have gained all that knowledge with out going to school? Yes, would I have? Probably not, mostly because I haven't had that many jobs. My school used c++ in their programming classes, I program in c++(among other languages), but it's not the training on c++ syntax that I have found the most valuable. It was the training in software engineering principles. Which if you go to work at the right company you will be properly trained on, but if you are being looked at by a company that doesn't want to spend a lot of time on training(or doesn't have the personnel) they want to know that you already have had that training. Traditional universities also require a more rounded education which I think some employers find helpful, especially if they are looking for more than just code monkeys. At university you get experience many different trainers, and be exposed to all sorts of different parts of technology, but they may not happen in a job. Kyle Waters _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
