A Noted Path

Personal blog of Theodore Nguyen-Cao

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To be more educated or not?

…That is, more educated in the formal sense.  I think nothing can replace real world experience.  However, one of the questions that have been on my mind for the past year or so is if I should be going back to school.  I’m 24 and I got a couple of years of work experience under [...]

Prior work experience not needed?

Jeff Atwood just posted an article on the myth that the more years of experience a developer has, the better candidate they are for a position. In the article he references a previous post that spoke to the hypothesis that there is no correlation between skill in programming and experience. This is exactly [...]

5 Things I Wish I Didn’t Learn in College

Here’s a really good post on things we probably should have been taught in college.
I agree most of the items but would have placed them in different order.
I figured I’ll try to come up with a list of my own.
Here’s my list of 5 things I wish I didn’t learn in college.

Useless knowledge
How many courses [...]

 

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