Phillip M. Vector wrote: > Crow T. Robot wrote: >> What's wrong with asking for a minimum of a bachelors in a technical field? >> I thought that was a pretty common requirement... > > Well, I haven't seen it much, but then again, I don't have one, so > perhaps I just subconsciously passed them over. :) > > IMHO, asking for a degree for a programmer is not worth anything. If you > are 30 or older, what they were teaching in school when you were 20 > isn't what is in use now.
When I was in college for a CS degree (~10 years ago) most of my co-students were 10 years older than me. You can't really judge the quality of their schooling by someone's age. Many people have degrees that didn't get them in their early 20s right after high school. > I mean, When was the last time you programed > an app in fortran? I mean, the only thing your degree shows at that > point is that you had rich parents who paid for your college, you worked > your way through college (and therefore, probably scraped by) or you > took out a student loan (and are probably now in debt from it). I think you're missing the point. A degree shows commitment. It shows your ability to start something and follow it through to the end. Sometimes that is what many employers are looking for. > I realize a college degree is important in some fields. Doctors, > Lawyers, Scientists, etc. Not a fast changing field like computer > programing. What has changed in computer programming over the past 20 years? Not much. The tools are a bit different. The medium of delivery is a bit different, but underlying concepts are the same. This is the type of thing that might have been covered in a history of computer programming course. ;) Unfortunately, A lot of people I've spoken to went through curriculum's that concentrate on the language and not on the basic programming concepts. Learning Java w/o learning about encapsulation is gonna hurt you down the line when you have to do something in a language other than Java. -- Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur, Software Developer, Author, Recording Engineer AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- My Company: <http://www.dot-com-it.com> My Podcast: <http://www.theflexshow.com> My Blog: <http://www.jeffryhouser.com> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:3417 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11
