Programmers without Degree

[salbahis]

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depende lagi kung freelancer ka pag college

im freelance computer techician/spammer during my college days, never dreamed of becoming a web developer...

[rjcaballes]

lisod, but pwede ka mag freelance if naa kay ipa kita nga working sites....

[skeptic_rob]

lisod, but pwede ka mag freelance if naa kay ipa kita nga working sites....

bisag simple?

[abaca]

bisag simple?

if simple, you will have lower chances tingali kay this is your only chance to impress potential clients. kung di impressive or eye-catching, most likely the people looking at your work will just pass by and forget about it.

[gnox]

Software Development is a very broad field. If you are just targeting development for PC and mobile, anybody can do this even for novice programmers without degrees, programming is already taught in high school here in Singapore and in other parts of the world. So just about anybody graduating from HS can very well be competent enough to do software development.

But if you are gunning for a more specific area of software development, you need a whole new set of skills and knowledge not just programming alone. In Firmware development for example, you need hardware and electronics design knowledge on top of your programming knowledge. In designing game engines, you need more than physics and a lot of mathematics. In the financial programming word, you need a lot of math specially quantitative analysis. In the real world, it takes more than just your programming knowledge to do something. This is where the value of finishing the degree comes in, it teaches you more than just learning how to code.

I have been a software developer for almost 20 years, started in 1993 with clipper while still in college to develop payroll systems, developing C and C++ firmware modules for embedded ARM devices after graduating from college, developing bump mapping algorithms for a game design company, to developing algorithmic trading engines for Credit-Suisse and prop trading firms here in Singapore currently. I can't tell you how many times I have to go back to my college textbook and re-learn all the other non-programming topics I've learned in college.

Although I'm now nearing my 40's and had just finished my MS degree, I'm and still dreaming on going back to college to pursue my PhD. One thing that you have to keep in mind is, that piece of paper that you get after you get the degree, isn't just an ordinary paper to waste, its a testament to all the knowledge and experience you attained in getting it, so treasure it well.

Well said, sir!

[pizzaboy]

i am actually looking into game development but as of now i am developing a website so game dev dream is sidetracked at the moment

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i am actually looking into game development but as of now i am developing a website so game dev dream is sidetracked at the moment

@pizzaboy, wow lingaw2x na nimo imong game dev or serious na?

[pizzaboy]

haha actually hobby rman ni ako ang programming hahaha bag.o rako pasar sa boards pero ako jud ni ipursue ang pag game dev hehe bsag mu take ug years kay nag learn pman ko ug code run hehe

[skeptic_rob]

haha actually hobby rman ni ako ang programming hahaha bag.o rako pasar sa boards pero ako jud ni ipursue ang pag game dev hehe bsag mu take ug years kay nag learn pman ko ug code run hehe

unsa di ai u corso bro

[pizzaboy]

haha nursing tawn! nya lau aug lagput na tripping2 run