[PLUG] Computer Science at PSU a nightmare

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Thu Dec 20 19:20:35 UTC 2007


Matt Rae wrote:
> Still, almost everything you get out of college you could learn from
> the internet or diving in and getting real world experience. The
> barrier to learning and getting that experience is low.. (Example:
> Google will even pay you to get experience developing open source
> software).. With access to the internet there is a lifetime of
> learning available on pretty much any topic. If you have the
> motivation to learn on your own and do something important, that
> outweighs going in to debt getting a degree.

If you have the motivation, the information is out there.  For 
example, the course materials for many of MIT's electrical engineering 
and computer science classes(as well as other departments) is 
available on the web.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm


galen



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