Do you honestly believe that a team without a manager can deliver software according to the budgeted time and cash? I'd love to see your team of 5+ programmers work in such a way.
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Evan Murphy
Blake Martinez
Why do you believe that university degrees feed people with a spoon?
Gavin Powell
The first year of the course is literally basic programming skills. There is nothing in a university course that you couldn't just learn off of the internet.
Caleb Hill
What are these? plz no bully, am brainlet
Parker Howard
If the matter of higher learning was simply a matter of buying textbooks and reading from cover to cover, then you'd be correct. The problem with self-directed learning is that you don't know what you don't know. You can spend your time comprehensively learning certain lessons which is fantastic if you have unlimited time to do this. There is also the matter of progression, how do you get from here to there when you don't know what you don't know? Once again, you could spend your time comprehensively learning your lessons but you need unlimited time to take this comprehensive pathway.
A formal accredited course has a specific pathway for students and the teachers teach specific lessons to guide them towards the pathway. Not only is the pathway directed towards a certain outcome, students have a whole community of people who will support them at that specific point in time. Everybody is working with the same context so everybody will instantly be able to work together regarding the lesson material. This is not the case for self-directed learners.
Ayden Hall
We have the internet now. There is no need to buy textbooks.
That's why you get a job and make friends with people who know more than you.
By asking people what they're up to and getting a job. Hell you can literally just watch entire series upon series of computer science lectures from a plethora of professors. It's not that complex.
The only reason you need unlimited time is because the breadth of knowledge is practically infinite compared to university.
What concrete value does any of that provide? I have the internet.
Tl;dr: Your post is horseshite and you should feel bad for encouraging young people to literally enslave themselves.
Jace Sullivan
Seriously, management is really important. Being a programming-related project manager is basically just being an autist wrangler. CS dudes might be smart and good at coding, but they suck at communication and coordination.