{"id":324,"date":"2016-06-23T18:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2016-06-23T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:05:22","slug":"the-limited-value-of-a-computer-science-education-thoughts-from-the-red-planet-thoughts-from-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/the-limited-value-of-a-computer-science-education-thoughts-from-the-red-planet-thoughts-from-the-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"The limited value of a computer science\u00a0education &#8211; thoughts from the red planet &#8211; thoughts from the red planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Overall I have mixed feelings about the value of a computer science education, mostly because of the personal benefit I have gotten from mine. For most cases though, I think it is severely overvalued. It&#8217;s very strange to observe an industry with major talent shortages, and then to know perfectly good self-taught programmers get prematurely rejected in interviews because they don&#8217;t have a computer science background. I hope to see the industry improve in this respect, but in the meantime I&#8217;m happy to exploit this imbalance as a competitive advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanmarz.com\/blog\/the-limited-value-of-a-computer-science-education.html\">The limited value of a computer science\u00a0education &#8211; thoughts from the red planet &#8211; thoughts from the red planet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall I have mixed feelings about the value of a computer science education, mostly because of the personal benefit I have gotten from mine. For most cases though, I think it is severely overvalued. It&#8217;s very strange to observe an industry with major talent shortages, and then to know perfectly good self-taught programmers get prematurely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}