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I agree with you for the most part, but I think if his sentence read: > A CS degree can prevent you from making a lot of obvious (if you have a CS degree) and
by nikmobi 10y ago
I agree with you for the most part, but I think if his sentence read:
> A CS degree can prevent you from making a lot of obvious (if you have a CS degree) and costly mistakes.
I think most people can agree that it doesn't provide any guarantee, but it definitely gives you a boost in the right direction.
(For the record, I don't have a CS degree)
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoYeah a simple word and I would have taken the post entirely differently :)
- jacobsenscott 10y agoI must have thought the word 'can' and didn't type it because it doesn't read right as it is. I do that sometimes.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoFair enough. I to do that quite frequently :)
- jasonjei 10y agoI think in many ways, though, the self-taught guys are going to be very adaptive and resourceful to learn new things. The difference in knowledge can often be compared to a self-taught home cook and a formally-trained cook. I once had an intern that was a CS master degree student and while he was tackling neural networks in school, I showed him how to link to a DLL 3-times in C++ and he still couldn't figure it out on his own. It also shows you having a CS degree doesn't mean anything. I think CS though will tell you how it works.
- stevenwiles 10y ago> A CS degree can prevent you from making a lot of obvious (if you have a CS degree) and costly mistakes. That is just wrong. A degree is just a piece of paper. How is a piece of paper going to prevent you from making mistakes? It won't. What you mean to say was this: > Any intelligent person with reasonable CS knowledge will be able to work without making a lot of obvious and costly mistakes I hope I've taught you something. :)