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[–] aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"College is needed" comments are so weird in a field that can be done on an island with a solar battery. CS isn't medicine or engineering, and the field is so young that requiring a "formal education" most likely will have negative effects of teaching poor practices that are not up to date

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think those are all Europeans rubbing their free or free to us colleges in our face :(

[–] aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Individual financial cost has nothing to do with my comment

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I sense that as you learn more about CS, it could change your opinion about coursework

[–] aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Many courses are free and books can be purchased outside of university

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to add that getting a degree likely will create a social network and provide experience of working in a team. These days that may be replaced by contributing to open source and going to free conferences (although these seem rare 😢).

So even though I am pro getting at least one first year of CS degree (because it's the most useful one because teaches to think rather than specifics), I agree that it can be fully replaced by a well though out self-education, and from purely CS standpoint self-education might even be of a better quality.

But yeah, I must disclose that I am a European rubbing free education, and I studied in university not college. So my opinion may be influenced by that and I don't know if first year in college would've been as useful as it was in university.

[–] aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

100%. I think most university degrees are for the social aspect, which is not to be ignored