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by Rogelio Gudino

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How useful is College/University for a Software Developer/Programmer

I study Computer Science and lately I’ve been hating school a lot. The main reason is because they make me learn technologies I don’t like.

So this got me thinking “what’s the benefit of having a Computer Science degree?”, after all, the technologies you learn won’t exist in a couple of years or decades and Software Development/Programming can be self taught.

The only 3 benefits I could find were:

1. Meet people, networking.
2. Get your feet wet on basic stuff and topics of interest.
3. Learn math, physics and other engineering subjects (hard to learn on your own).

Despite all this, most employers require you to have a degree in order to give you a job, and I think they shouldn’t, instead they should check your experience and knowledge.