Timeline for Is finishing my CS degree critical to being employable as a web developer if I already have good experience and an internship?
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| Jun 26, 2020 at 1:54 | comment | added | NPSF3000 | @CharlesDuffy I think there's this misconception that because some people got their grounding via uni... that the only way to get grounding is via uni. Yet every time I look at data - whether it be the developers I've worked with, or payscale comparing salaries... there is no general advantage to a degree... in fact, it can sometimes hurt. Keep in mind... it's not like we don't have uni educated developers on the team - so, like any developer on a team - we pool experience from all backgrounds to solve the challenges at hand. At least half my learning is from my collegues. | |
| Jun 26, 2020 at 1:54 | comment | added | NPSF3000 | @CharlesDuffy Those are great examples, and I'm glad you've done well! However, they are just anecdotes - for example as a self-taught developer I've built my owner parses and normalized databases. I don't recall any of the numerous university-educated developers I've had the privilege of working with handing me an algorithm from a paper to help us out. | |
| Jun 26, 2020 at 0:15 | comment | added | Charles Duffy | I started my career paired with a brilliant systems-level developer with no formal training -- I learned immensely from his experience, but at the same time he was often surprised at how I could bring to hand an algorithm from the academic world that would operate orders-of-magnitude faster than his off-the-cuff implementation for whatever work he was doing. | |
| Jun 26, 2020 at 0:15 | comment | added | Charles Duffy | A lot of the trouble of being purely self-taught is not knowing which abstract concepts are going to be important. Would I have bothered to learn parser design, or database normalization, or logic programming if they hadn't been part of a degree course? I'm not sure I would have seen the point to any of them... but at one point or another, they've all been useful. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 23:55 | history | answered | NPSF3000 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |