HappySkeptic Wrote:By all means, learn and have fun with a hobby project, but that is almost certainly not going to make you much money.Well, as far as I understand it, if I don't have hobby projects, no employer will employ me (whether or not I have a diploma). Hobby projects are a proof you know how to actually program, rather than just the theory.
HappySkeptic Wrote:As for the value of university -- it does teach you how to learn and how to solve problems that others give you (and not just your own interest).Well, the problems you face in real life have little to do with the problems you face at the university. And the reason you are solving them for is very different. In university, you solve them because that's what's expected of you, and you don't really understand why. In real life, you do it for money.
HappySkeptic Wrote:For employers, it is some indication that the employee might succeed in a real-world environment (though not a guarantee of specific knowledge).Well, you know, spending years studying nonsense at the university just because it might help you get employed, and there is no way to tell whether the diploma really helps you get employed, seems like a rather bad deal to me.
By the way, I've started implementing data structures into my programming language.
