[Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees
- From: manokaran@xxxxxxxxx (Mano)
- Date: Fri Jun 27 16:10:14 2008
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:20 PM, benjamin <benjaminrtz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you are an employer, whom would you hire?
http://greatjustice.info/university-versus-self-taught/
Who Needs a Computer Science Degree When There's Wikipedia?
http://www.geeknews.net/2008/06/21/who-needs-a-computer-science-degree-when-theres-wikipedia
My take:
Wikipedia, google et al are like a HDD - with very very large seek
times. To get any useful work done (by taking decisions in real time)
you have to have the stuff in RAM - on demand! A college education
populates your RAM with most of the basics. With that foundation you
can leverage the internet to solve bigger problems.
Would you allow a person operate on you by consulting Wikipedia ;-) or
would you prefer one whose RAM has been crammed with 8 years of
college education and hands on experience.
mano
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