The limited value of a computer science education
Post number 7,819,394 talking about how useful or not useful a CS degree is to a programming job.<p>Here are some lessons I learned by going to school that I find incredibly useful:<p>1. How to shut up and get some work done, even if I don&#x27;t see the point to it.<p>2. How to shut up and get some work done, even if it isn&#x27;t directly applicable or valuable to a job or something I want in the future.<p>3. How to take feedback and criticism from people who know better than me.<p>4. How to deal with someone I don&#x27;t like but who has power over me.<p>5.  Lots of other fascinating things that have nothing to do with my job but that learning about made me happy and appreciative of life.<p>6. A handful of things that <i>are</i> pertinent to my job, but I see this as added extras because I didn&#x27;t go to school for the sole purpose of getting a job.<p>7.  That a lot of people seem to think that the only things in life worth learning or paying for are those that will be useful at a job.  This is a sad one.