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rbowman

On 08/11/2020 09:58 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:12:10 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 08/11/2020 01:17 AM, T wrote:
What my degree(s) proves is that I am willing to take on
a long term project that involves considerable personal
hardship (skool sucks) and see it though to the end.
That is exactly what Bowman is looking for.

Oh ya, I can point out some exceptions too, but
they are exceptions. Sorry, but Bowman knows
what he is doing. And he most probably does not
have the time or energy to dick around trying to find
who the exceptions are.

It's a slightly different situation but several of the programmers I've
hired dropped out of college. I did the same thing in graduate school.
I'd been working for several years and was going nights but I realized
what was being taught had nothing to do with what I was doing days. I've
had better luck with short seminars that related to what I was doing
than a formal education program.

Even when I interview people that have graduated from the local diploma
mill with a CS degree I feel like they should demand their money back.

One of the colleges in Maryland was a customer of mine and their
computer science program seemed to be lagging the industry by about
10-15 years. I can see why someone would drop out. Bill gates dropped
out of Harvard. That is not the same as an inner city kid dropping out
of high school.

When I graduated iirc Dartmouth was the only college with a CS degree.
We had programming courses but it was more like 'here's a new tool like
a slide rule. You should have some basic familiarity with it.' I looked
at the local mill's curriculum to see if I wanted to pick a CS up for
the hell of it but decided there was nothing there of interest.

We had one person who was hired and when he was asked what plans he had
for keeping up his course work the answer was "Course work? Hell, I've
got a programming job.'

There were a couple of others that did finish their degrees. It didn't
seem to harm them much.