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Originally Posted by Lupe  "If it's anything technology related, I would probably say no."
Why? |
The technology field is easily self-taught. Professors mould your thinking processes in one direction, whereas self-taught you come up with some creative ways to solve problems. I don't know, maybe I'm biased. I've been programming computers since I was a little kid and in high-school my computers science teacher just annoyed me.
I hated the way he taught us to write code as it was way too inefficient. In order for him not to be be able to dissect my final project which was supposed to be done in Pascal, I wrote it in Assembler instead. It was 50 times harder to write it in Assembler for what it did, but in the end he had no idea what I did so the only thing he could mark it on was the fact that it worked.
He docked me marks because I didn't use proper sentence structure in my short comments beside each line of code. I wasn't aware that computer science class was for learning perfect English grammar.
Times change, but the year that I was considering going for post-secondary computer science courses Microsoft had a job ad section on their site and it said that they typically don't hire programmers with post-secondary education, saying that if they wanted the thinking habits of the professors students, they would just hire the professor. I believe at that time they were hiring straight out of highschool. Not sure how it is now.