I agree with many in that it really does depend. It depends on your location, the type of job, and you as an individual. I recently had lunch with one of my previous professors that taught me Java from first to third year. She was interested to know if I found my degree useful. And honestly, I only really found her subject of Java to be useful :D. I have worked in companies where they would not even look at you if you don't have a degree. I'm totally against that viewpoint. I have worked with people that have masters degrees and found them to be quite useless. And then I have worked with people that are self-taught with no formal training but were quite brilliant. In fact I have generally found that individuals with degrees can become lazy as they like to fall back on the fact that they have a degree. A degree is also what you as an individual make of it. I think that if one only follows the curriculum of a degree, you could find yourself feeling completely overwhelmed when you get into the real world. The way I see it is that one always wants to do things that make you stand out from the rest. A degree is one way to achieve that but it's not the only way.
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I agree with many in that it really does depend. It depends on your location, the type of job, and you as an individual. I recently had lunch with one of my previous professors that taught me Java from first to third year. She was interested to know if I found my degree useful. And honestly, I only really found her subject of Java to be useful :D. I have worked in companies where they would not even look at you if you don't have a degree. I'm totally against that viewpoint. I have worked with people that have masters degrees and found them to be quite useless. And then I have worked with people that are self-taught with no formal training but were quite brilliant. In fact I have generally found that individuals with degrees can become lazy as they like to fall back on the fact that they have a degree. A degree is also what you as an individual make of it. I think that if one only follows the curriculum of a degree, you could find yourself feeling completely overwhelmed when you get into the real world. The way I see it is that one always wants to do things that make you stand out from the rest. A degree is one way to achieve that but it's not the only way.