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Re: Stack Overflow survey reveals over half of developers are self-taught

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On 12/04/2015 5:14 AM, RS Wood wrote:
>  From the «d» department:
> Title: Stack Overflow survey: Nearly half of developers are self-taught
> Author:
> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:44:50 -0400
> Link: http://www.topix.net/science/computer-science/2015/04/150410PB8GLN?fromrss=1
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> A college degree in computer science is not necessarily needed to get up to
> speed in software development. Almost half of developers never received a
> degree in that discipline, according to a Stack Overflow survey that polled
> more than 26,000 persons in 157 countries this February.
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I have a computer science degree. You don't really learn that much, and 
what you do learn becomes obsolete quite quickly.

The same is likely true of a great many other disciplines, with the 
significant difference that a qualification in computer science is not a 
legal requirement for getting a job in that industry.

Sylvia.

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Stack Overflow survey reveals over half of developers are self-taught RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-04-11 19:14 +0000
  Re: Stack Overflow survey reveals over half of developers are self-taught Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-04-12 13:48 +1000
    Re: Stack Overflow survey reveals over half of developers are self-taught Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-04-13 21:24 +0000
      Re: Stack Overflow survey reveals over half of developers are   self-taught Peter Mc Donough <mcd-mail-lists@gmx.net> - 2015-04-14 00:05 +0200
  Re: Stack Overflow survey reveals over half of developers are self-taught Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> - 2015-04-13 21:32 +0200
  Re: Stack Overflow survey reveals over half of developers are self-taught Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-13 21:44 -0400
    Re: Stack Overflow survey reveals over half of developers are self-taught Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-14 09:35 +0100

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