I agree, college is not for learning languages as they seem to change every season. It is to learn the theories and fundamentals that apply to any language. It is learning everything that goes with programming like UML and development methodologies. And I am not talking patterns, but full development lifecycles.Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:A formal degree is often the bare minimum employers will look for. It's also hardly useless - you get a lot more out of a degree than simply how to write PHP. There is a lot of theory self-taught developers lack unless they make the effort to seek it out. Most self-taught people actually reading this forum are in this group most likely.A degree for PHP LMAO. If it was for more complex languages I would agree with that or applied programming, but this is PHP, a language made for building websites. Degrees are crap. There are plenty of coders out there who are self taught, and are can out code any stooge who spent 4 years and thousands of his/her dollars on a piece of paper. Teaching yourself is the best way.
In saying that I personally do not make it a requirement that some has a degree as I rather have a college drop out that knows how to code versus a person with multiple degrees that seems to know nothing (this happens). I have actually lost a lot of trust in resumes and degrees. I like talking with the person where I can usually tell if they know what they are saying in the first 5-10 minutes.