RE: Can I get some help with school
December 18, 2015 at 1:15 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2015 at 1:20 am by CapnAwesome.)
(December 18, 2015 at 1:07 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:(December 18, 2015 at 1:01 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: That's terrible advice to be a programmer. Nobody in the programming world cares what school you went to. They only care how well you can program.
Sure, if your goal is to hack code at $20/hr for a living. If you want to be a project lead at a young age, if you want to work for a major company and make fantastic money, the best way to do that is still college. If you want to innovate, you need to understand advanced data structures and algorithms and be fluent in multiple languages, and you're not gonna get that at ITT tech. Also, the field is moving towards IS, and I bet Tibs would tell you he is grateful for his schooling.
There are always exceptions to the rule. There are hyper talented kids that taught themselves everything and make great programmers. I wouldn't count on that. And I'm not.
Having a degree probably matters less in computer science than any other field. Also if you have an interest, it's probably one of the things that you can teach yourself far easier then say, biology or chemistry. You just start programming. I would say the only advantage to going to college for a CS degree is being around other programmers. You are also going to accumulate debt and be forced into the workplace, maybe have to take a job you don't want to as well.