Elections, politics and the debate on education reform. Should university fees be lowered? Should they be raised? Should people even bother to go to university? Debates, debates, endless debates. Some subjects like medicine demands an in-depth university education experience but other subjects? Many are a waste of time. Learning theory doesn’t necessarily translate into practical skills that lead to employment. Sometimes you just need to learn simply by doing, especially when it comes to learning computer programming.
A 2012 study found that only 40% of ‘Software Engineering, Programmer or Computer Scientist’ jobs were filled by Computer Science (CS) graduates. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison… None of these have degrees of any kind – something they share with 47% of web developers.
