Comment Re:but I enjoy graduate school! (Score 1) 309
What makes you think that someone with a degree will know more about OS, DBMS, and language theory and structure than someone you pull off the street?
When I went to the University of Washington - a supposedly "good" E-skool - I found out that completing my coursework was giving me very little instruction in code writing, data structures, style, &c. Spend 2 weeks on something, hand it in, (you are forbidden to show it to peers, that's "cheating"), and wait a week. In the meantime, another STUDENT (not the prof!) spends about 60 seconds on it, scrawls some notations in the margin, writes a number on top, and hands it back - this is education? At work, I had experienced engineers examining my work very carefully, and had much more access to constructive criticism.
When I went to the University of Washington - a supposedly "good" E-skool - I found out that completing my coursework was giving me very little instruction in code writing, data structures, style, &c. Spend 2 weeks on something, hand it in, (you are forbidden to show it to peers, that's "cheating"), and wait a week. In the meantime, another STUDENT (not the prof!) spends about 60 seconds on it, scrawls some notations in the margin, writes a number on top, and hands it back - this is education? At work, I had experienced engineers examining my work very carefully, and had much more access to constructive criticism.
