[Gllug] Jobs Sites and Universities [slightly off-topic]

[Dan Kolb]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:16:52PM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
> 
> Yep, in a field that moves as quickly as ours degrees are largely
> meaningless for a lot of jobs. 

Such as? I'd agree if the degree course purely focused on implementation (i.e.
learning $programming_language). However, algorithms haven't changed; and any
newly devised algorithms are more likely to be taught on a degree course than
picked up on a job. Likewise with networking - the Cisco command set you use
today may be completely different to the one that may be around in 5 years
time. However, the networking technology itself (which tends to be focused on
during the course) will most likely be the same, like it has been for the past
20-30 years.

Dan
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