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Diversifying knowledge(?)
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Troublesome
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Hungary3932 Posts
 That said, you make some rather bold statements in your rant - barring apocalypse, software engineering will not become obsolete, that's ridiculous to say. Also, knowledge and skill is not like investment in the sense that a dollar can still get you the same 10% interest, but just knowing how to turn on a computer will not get you a job anywhere. (Extreme example, sure, but try to see my point about linearity) Your argument about becoming a "jack of all trades" seems valid and important. Also, "specializing" in the vast field of software engineering still leaves you with a lot of options. (edit: I misread your post a bit at first, disregard my deleted second paragraph) | ||
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Navane
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But then, I don't know what "software engineering" means to you. There are so many re-definitions of terms like that. At one university it's an engineering degree and you get an iron ring, at some college it's a course in using global variables in C++. If you're talking about the field and all the accumulated knowledge related to time complexity and architecture and all of that, then yeah, a proper education in that should give you the tools to update and modernize your language-specific knowledge as time goes on. Where the Jack-of-all-trades part comes into it is the tendency of the software industry to box you into a specialty according to your work experience. Don't accept three jobs in a row doing C++. | ||
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