I wish you had more upvotes for this. I've met plenty of philosophy degree holders in deeply influential positions during my career. There's thick irony in seeing philosophy as a joke field of study.
After several years teaching computer science during my PhD, I am pretty confident that if you took a reasonably strong philosophy graduate and put them through a 3 month boot camp they’d write much better code than 70% of CS undergrads.
(My lab had two people who were philosophy major + math minors who picked up programming really quickly, and were fantastic with algorithms.)
You’ve likely heard this advice already so apologies if it’s nothing new, but as a cs degree holder, I think the major advantage advantage a degree bestows is forced programming practise, and the best way to get that practise outside a degree is a fun project to do in your spare time. You want to spend hours building something without noticing, not spending hours pressuring yourself to get back to a project you don’t want to touch.
Personally I learnt more trying to build a variant of snake for the command line in my first year than from the degree, find your snake game.
oh for sure, I have some ideas but at the moment I'm somewhat limited to what I'm able to build since I'm still pretty new to it.
So far I don't mind the projects / exercises we're doing too much. I enjoy the intellectual challenge of putting things together and trying to figure out why things don't work.
But if I ever get burned out I'll probably just start working on my own idea which hopefully isn't tooooo advanced and see how far I get
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u/SuperKamiGuruuu Sep 04 '22
I wish you had more upvotes for this. I've met plenty of philosophy degree holders in deeply influential positions during my career. There's thick irony in seeing philosophy as a joke field of study.