On 5/1/2017 9:00 PM, rbowman wrote:

The only coding when I was a kid involved a ring I got from a box of
cereal. My first exposure to FORTRAN IV on a 360/30 impressed me so much
that I didn't do any coding until microprocessors came out and I snuck
in the backdoor from TTL design.


Even the idea of the internet wasn't something I'd heard anything about
until the late 70's. Coding? What's coding? LOL No one knew how to do
it, let alone teach someone else how to do it? Webpages? Graphics? There
were no degree for those sort of things. You could buy books on it,
though! I liked those books.

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On 05/01/2017 08:24 PM, Muggles wrote:
Even the idea of the internet wasn't something I'd heard anything about
until the late 70's. Coding? What's coding? LOL No one knew how to do
it, let alone teach someone else how to do it? Webpages? Graphics? There
were no degree for those sort of things.

The company is replying to a request for proposal and apparently there
was some question about the qualifications of the staff. The PM asked me
what my degree was in. i think she was disappointed it wasn't Computer
Science, but in '64 RPI didn't even have a CS department. Purdue was the
first in '62 but it took a while for it to become a separate discipline.

Even today while there are CS degrees the recent graduates I've
interviewed were taught yesterday's technology. I'm more interested if
they know how to use Stack Exchange, Git Hub, and google to figure out
what we're doing today.

On 5/2/2017 12:46 AM, rbowman wrote:
On 05/01/2017 08:24 PM, Muggles wrote:
Even the idea of the internet wasn't something I'd heard anything about
until the late 70's. Coding? What's coding? LOL No one knew how to do
it, let alone teach someone else how to do it? Webpages? Graphics? There
were no degree for those sort of things.

The company is replying to a request for proposal and apparently there
was some question about the qualifications of the staff. The PM asked me
what my degree was in. i think she was disappointed it wasn't Computer
Science, but in '64 RPI didn't even have a CS department. Purdue was the
first in '62 but it took a while for it to become a separate discipline.

Even today while there are CS degrees the recent graduates I've
interviewed were taught yesterday's technology. I'm more interested if
they know how to use Stack Exchange, Git Hub, and google to figure out
what we're doing today.

yeah These days they want you to have a degree to prove you can do
something you've done for a very long time already!

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Maggie

Muggles
news 03 May 2017 01:38:21 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

yeah These days they want you to have a degree to prove you can
do something you've done for a very long time already!

Depending on the degree and how many you've managed to acquire, along
with certifications of various kinds, you can actually find yourself in
the most ludicrous position of all; 'grossly overqualified'

*sigh* Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

As far as the degree is just to prove you can do something you've been
doing for a very long time already, yes and no. The degree semi ensures
you understanding the underlying concepts behind whatever the degree is
for, and, you've demonstrated the ability to apply them. It doesn't
'prove' you've done whatever the degree is about for a long/short
period of time, though. That's called hands on experience.


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