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by throw737858 1833 days ago
One more reason to skip uni. Remote only experience for full price with orwelian nightmare included. All documentation and lessons are online for free. You do not need human text to speech engine that costs 30k/year.
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> You do not need human text to speech engine that costs 30k/year.

So you don't need to ask any questions, ever? Then go to the library instead.

Not all lecturers welcome questions, it depends on the country and culture. Certainly my own undergraduate experience consisted of a "human text-to-speech engine" experience where the lecturer lectured mainly from a text, while students were expected to silently listen, and then answer any questions they had themselves by searching in the literature.

When I moved on to graduate studies and had a weekly seminar, then questions and discussion were welcome, but I sympathize with the feeling that in-person undergraduate education is a waste of time and (in countries that charge tuition fees) money.

I really didn't ask many question during my career as a student. The whole thing really was an exercise in obtaining credentials.
Did you visit public library recently? It is closed or full of homeless people. Scihub and laser printer is much better option!

For $50/hour you can find experts in most fields. You could even hire underpaid postdocs who teach at unis.

Good luck getting past the gate keepers for most companies then.
If you're in any other engineering field (EE, ME, etc), you're really not going to get a job without a degree. Compared to programming, it's like perhaps a 1% chance.
Unless you're going to become a doctor or civil engineer, those qualifications are pointless.
They absolutely are not pointless for software engineering. I tried skipping university and there is a night and day difference in responses before and after graduating.
I am pretty sure I got nocked back for a job at EBAY because I have an atypical career path.
FB, Google etc dropped gate keepers.
Facebook and Google aren't most companies, most companies will still turn you away if you don't have a degree

it is infinitely easier to get a job w a degree than without one