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Is Comp Sci degree even worth it?

Recruiters don't give a f even if you have comp sci degree since every other people on the streets have comp sci degree as well. Most courses that are taught in uni are outdated and not even applicable to real world problems or hackathons. It may teach some relevant content (such as 2521 for leetcode) but those can literally be found online for free or in other online courses which only costs like $50/month as opposed to UNSW's ridiculous pricing of $1k+ per course which isn't even taught well.

Uni doesn't teach you the essential things that recruiters are looking for such as building a real project which you can launch into app store and get real time users or the coding skills required to be competitive in hackathons which are the actual useful stuff.

Yet, these useful stuff needs to be largely self taught all by yourself by spending countless hours, which one could have developed if they didn't waste so much hours taking comp sci courses in UNSW which doesn't teach jacksh*t the real skills used for projects, hackathons or even real j*bs.

Degrees are only there for credentials that every other million people have as well, to waste your golden age of 20s away on learning useless things (mostly useless things - I am not saying these courses are 100% useless). But my main point is: You have to learn 90% of the real work all by yourself and degree won't cover that skills for you at all.

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u/Interesting-Ant9362 — 4 days ago
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Does anyone know how to prepare for the qualitative section?

On Moodle, it says we have 3 questions(with sub-parts) on Topics: Week 2 Value from Market Opportunities, Week 4 Value from Technology, Week 10 Performance Measurement, but there are no practice materials in Moodle with questions and "exemplar solutions".

Does anyone know what kind of questions to expect and what the solutions should be (or any exemplars)? Thanks.

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u/Interesting-Ant9362 — 21 days ago