talks with my former high school teacher



Hello ,

   As through further days I made some recent discoveries. There were few reasons why I started this blog. One was to prove to those people that you can be successful without earning a degree, second was to kickstart my career as a developer and third was to show that you don't need a cs degree to learn to program. Out of the silicon valley developers about half of the stats show that these developers were self taught and don't have a computer science degree. When I took CS at channel islands I felt as if the learning material that they were providing me wasn't enough to get into the development career. They didn't show you the necessary to tools to get into the development field such as launching your own product and using what they learned to adapt to code. Also if someone has recently been offered the position from a computer science degree, it is most likely that they have self-taught themselves this stuff, also as I have said before I don't think I would have enjoyed computer science and programming if I stuck with the program at my school as opposed to a  self-learning environment. With all the resources that we have now, it seems as if the university system is starting to crumble and tear apart, because of the fact that the online resources we have now is overshadowing the university system. My former high school teacher phil wagner has been working at google for about 10 years now, and he has seen the problem that has been occurring,  former students that just got a degree in cs have not been showing the necessary skills in a real world working environment, which is why google has reverted to a program for recent cs graduates. The program consists of a year of learning the necessary tools to working  in a development team, and applying there computer science knowledge to projects, things that they should've been teaching in college. Some of the things that they taught us in college was to program in c/c++ and also java, and although they have taught us the syntax, they never applied it to real world projects. Its a good thing I'm learning all this stuff on my own, and I'm just starting to understand how much I love this stuff. I'm so passionate about it that I am willing to put in the work everyday, to fully develop what I want to develop. This was kind of a long ambitious rant about how I truly feel about the system and how self-learning can be beneficial to your path, creating self-discipline towards something you love and your passionate about can create a brighter path towards something you want, instead of being spoon fed the material, its now all making sense to me now on why a mama/papa bird would throw out there baby bird so it can fly. It all applies to the same concept, if one cannot fend for themselves, then one cannot survive out in the beyond.

-Eric Blancas

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