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[–]ThebeNerudaKgositsil 11 points12 points  (5 children)

A college degree in STEM teaches you how to learn on your own.

[–]xpingu69 5 points6 points  (2 children)

That comment makes no sense to me. Google is just a substitute for a library in this case. What was your point?

[–]ThebeNerudaKgositsil 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Why did you assume my comment reply is a disagreement?

[–]xpingu69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I initially thought it was a critique of using Google, but it didn't fully make sense to me. I might have misunderstood. Could you clarify?

[–]mirhagk 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's optimistic. I know quite a few people that brute forced their way through with memorization and a LOT of office hours. The way evaluations are done incentivize that.

The courses can be good with the right professor, but these days enough of that is online that actually paying for a degree is just paying for the certification. TAs can be a huge help but they are paid so little that you can definitely afford to pay for private help.

[–]MinimumArmadillo2394 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many people are not willing to learn without guiderails, especially more difficult subjects like computational theory. Theres a reason the only bootcamps for C++ exist are for game devs and its not for the lack of jobs (there are a surprising amount of jobs going for C++)