re: #51 Walter L. Newton

And on another topic that you comment above brings up, I have never understood the “need” that some companies have for degrees. I don’t mean that if you have one, it shouldn’t be an advantage to helping you find employment, but it shouldn’t be a brick wall to working at company “X.”

I started working with computers way before they had any meaningful courses available for that “science.” I was programming computers before most people even had daily access to them.

In 30 years, I’ve written code solutions to every business rule that exists, now a days it’s only a matter of repeating something I have done many times over to “solve” a need in a software application. And when the occasional “new” problem arises, it’s really just an old problem in a new container, ergo, basic problem already solved.

I ask you, the same question I have asked over and over, what kind of practical knowledge does a BA or Masters in computer science (or just any degree) give me that I probably don’t already have after 30 years of doing this?

Something I have never understood.

Is there no process by which your output can be your reference, like a medieval guild’s masterpiece?