[devty]

I'm not the author of the above comment, but here is my take..

I think one benefit of a curated course is that it includes materials you didn't even know exists. We can easily improve on our known unknowns - just pick up a book or google it - but unknowns unknowns are... well difficult to learn. I think going through a graduate program helps you get a better grasp of what you don't know AND what you didn't know you didn't know.

[g051051]

Yes, that's certainly an aspect of it. As someone with a lot of professional experience, it's easy to get into a rut with what you're required to do in your day job. I always tried to keep up with new techniques, frameworks, etc. But getting the degree forced me to learn more about the course subjects. Like in Computer Networking, most of my low-level networking knowledge was several years old. Being exposed to Software Defined Networking was very interesting, and I enjoyed experimenting with Pyretic to explore how it works.