On 11/03/2015 09:53 AM, Derek Caswell wrote: > I do agree with Andrew on a lot his points about "classically trained" > developers but I still think there is a lot of value in the education > process and the skills that it gives you in critical thinking. My > recommendation to most people is to get the degree but don't think that the > degree is going to get you a great high-paying job. You need to figure out > ASAP what you want to do like programming, administration, etc. and then > get as much real world experience in that as you can get while getting the > degree. That experience is what is going to shape you into a valuable
It's definitely best to have a "real job" while going to school. When hiring kids fresh out of college, I always favored the ones who had decent programming jobs already. There's benefit to both real world experience and "classical training". Steve _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
