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You should realize that many people have no idea how to spot a good programmer, because they aren't good programmers, so they just go with degrees. Most people, degree or not, cannot do even the most basic tasks.

If you could build a Snapchat app on your own, you are already far ahead of most programmers, so it is only a matter of getting experience to show people other than a degree. When you get into a job you will see just how incompetent most programmers really are.

If you got a job now you could have a modest house payed off instead of being hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt four years from now.




What percentage of industry-standard incompetent programmers have college degrees?

If it's a large proportion, doesn't that say something about the quality of intake, education, and qualification in college CS?


http://www.drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/jobs-iq-te...

It's a general thing and not at all restricted to programming.




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