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>Degrees are worthless. A degree courses is designed to be easy to grade, not to teach you anything useful.

My experience is very far from what you describe. I learned ton of stuff from teachers who were mostly enthusiastic about the field they were teaching. Do you write from your own experience? do you have a degree?




It depends strongly on where you go. I dropped out in my 20's because I was learning bugger all from completely disinterested lecturers. I'm picking it up again at 31 (new university) and I'm not only mostly enjoying it but I'm even enjoying "bullshit" subjects that have nothing to do with CS.

Some universities (I would assume most) are businesses that print degrees and answer to shareholders, others are learning institutions that answer to students.




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