Stop.Just stop.You guys always begrudge success when Africans do good things.It is pathetic and low.You ought to learn to appreciate and celebrate people when they work hard to achieve success rather looking for ways to belittle their achievements.
With all due respect,i disagree with you.I have a master degree in computer science from a university in Chicago and i can tell you that most of these courses can be learned by yourself.You just need to be self-disciplined and self-motivated.And constantly ready to learn.This field is all about continuous learning.Nobody teaches me Chef,Docker,Ansible,AWS in the university.
Infact, American tech industry moves faster than most computer science departments in terms of new technology.
When i look at the course outline of online Master in Computer science from Georgia Tech last week,i laughed.You know what,you can learn it by yourself.Please see http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/courses/
I am a big fan of college education.But computer science is just not one of them.That is my experience.YMMV.My CTO has a degree in Visual Communication.He taught himself all what he knows.You know what,we both earn six figures,i can tell you that you wont know that he does not have any degree in computer science.
Computer Science is math. Chef, Docker, Ansible, AWS are industry technologies. You don't go learn CS to learn these, you want a trade school instead. Industry generally doesn't even work on the same problems that university CS departments work on.
In industry, a "hard" problem is one that takes more than a few weeks to solve. In academia, a hard problem is one that you don't even know if you can solve, let alone put a time frame on it.
And yes, you can learn anything on your own, but the number of people who actually go and learn the deep maths on their own is vanishingly small.
> I have a master degree in computer science from a university in Chicago and i can tell you that most of these courses can be learned by yourself.
Is there any skill in the planet that cannot be learned by yourself, given enough time?
Now, if you do have the self-discipline to learn everything, at the same level, without a teacher supervising and pointing out the mistakes you didn't even know you had made, congratulations.
In that case, though, why wouldn't you enroll anyway? It's like a self-signed certificate. You may have a valid one, but having someone else to validate gives it more credibility.
Well,you guys are part of the problem.That is high school kids end up spending/getting loans to go to college to study course they can easily learn at a fraction cost by themselves.
And not too distance reasons why boot-camps are everywhere.You try to make computer science/tech looks like extra ordinary adventures.I repeat you don't need four walls of university to learn almost everything you need to know in computer science.
If i had had information that i have now,i would have dropped out of college in a heartbeat.I don't need to give you any example of people who drop out of computer science study and still excel.They are everywhere.Don't say that these folks are exception because they are not.
I understand that some folks need structure to excel in anywhere they find themselves in life.
Horses for courses I guess. Personally, I don't see the basic volatile tech belonging to CS curriculum at all, it's the things you pick up from user manuals on your way of doing bigger things.
Do you assume that I would be a CTO of anything had I not stuck in the school, or? I didn't say that grad school is a shortcut to financial success, just a shortcut to understanding the harder CS problems.
Keep your head up. I am proud of you for getting that degree in CS.Don't let anyone or anything discourage you.Apply to as many places as possible. There are so many jobs for developers now.If the job descriptions say you need 1 to 3 years of work experience,apply anyway.Dont worry about it.
Aside,be ready to relocate if the need be for now.These are jobs in many bay area start ups.
