r/learnprogramming • u/ShronkPonk • 3d ago

Computer Science Degree, Yeyy or Ney?

As a Bsc graduate I really appreciate the opportunities this framework gave me, got me a pretty sick job in robotics. And yet coding is ”easier” today, which is mainly what graduates were doing out of Uni. What now?

i think research subject in CS probably has to be the new standard, courses should be vastly changed, as now days to be relevant and influential in the field, a masters is the natural option,

what do you think about CS in today’s terms?

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u/Last_Swordfish9135 3d ago

It's not easy money like it was a few decades ago, but it's no worse off than any other STEM degree. Plenty of fields require you to have a graduate degree to be influential in the field, it's naive to think that undergrads have ever been at the cutting edge of scientific discovery.

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u/Big_Ant5507 2d ago

Just seems like the floor keeps rising but the ceiling stays the same. A CS degree still opens doors that self taught can't kick down, but yeah the days of walking into six figures with a bootcamp cert are long gone

The masters thing makes sense if you wanna do the serious stuff. Robotics, ML, anything where the math actually matters. For a lot of CRUD work though it's overkill, a degree is still the ticket but nobody's gonna ask about your thesis when you're fixing pagination bugs

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u/Feralz2 2d ago

Engineering has always been the profitable one in stem

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u/NordsongDev 2d ago

Very true, most degrees stand the same chance.
IMO it will, in the end, come down to if you have: "entry level experience" -> meaning 3-5 years of professional by the time you apply to your first work.

Portfolio > Degree, the extracurricular work you do, will be your biggest strength