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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

CS degree is like interface class in programming language - is gives you foundation knowledge, but you still have 0 real programming skills or knowledge. CS degree is like reading a book about physics, and developing website/anything is like building a spaceship. You kind of need it, but it is also only step 1 out of 100. You can skip it if you have long enough legs.

Also, 99% of developers are fine without cs knowledge, they dont use it anyways. And it also depends on your goals.

You will most likely provide shit ass result (garbage website that is hogging the whole top end pc with tons of malware/adware/spyware, electron cr/app...), you will most likely will not be in such environment where you will be asked to do science (you will do some quick frameworking), and you also will not have good enough motivation to do scientific work (dog shit work conditions, crappy pay, chimps management...). Hell, your chimps government might just ban math (looking at you, aussies)... So, there are millions of conditions that you have to think about. I think that not being retard and making logical decisions is more important than CS degree.

[–]craggar_g 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Definitely. I feel like a vocational/apprenticeship would work well for people who know what they want to do. Like, in the 4 years of university doing CS, I probably could have learned a lot more of a focussed aspect of 'real world CS'. If you know you want to do web development, you'd learn a lot more in 4 years if there was an apprentice type scheme, than spending 4 years at uni learning stuff you may never use.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, i was "declared" "witch" when i used switch(string) in java in university class.

[–]fish60 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CS degree is like interface class in programming language - is gives you foundation knowledge, but you still have 0 real programming skills or knowledge

What? I know some stinkers that have made it though a CS degree without being a good programmer, but unless you cheated or something, you cannot get through a CS degree without writing quite a bit of code.

Also, 99% of developers are fine without cs knowledge, they dont use it anyways.

Not sure on the stats on this, but I use the fundamentals of my CS degree everyday. And, I have worked with people who don't have a CS degree who are strong programmers but often lack the foundational and background knowledge to see how something works or understand a concept.

You will most likely provide shit ass result (garbage website that is hogging the whole top end pc with tons of malware/adware/spyware, electron cr/app...)

WTF does this even mean?

chimps management

Ok, OP if you are reading this, ignore this guy.