I'm sure that there are good coders who never went to college and bad ones who did. One of the only two people we had to fire in 12 years at our company was fresh out of college with a brand new Masters degree. He came highly recommended by his professors and even had code samples, etc. It turned out he couldn't program his way out of a paper bag. (Maybe that fact that his name was Hak had something to do with it.)
As far as job requirements, I remember in about 1978 seeing an ad looking for someone with 15 years experience with microprocessors.
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I'm sure that there are good coders who never went to college and bad ones who did. One of the only two people we had to fire in 12 years at our company was fresh out of college with a brand new Masters degree. He came highly recommended by his professors and even had code samples, etc. It turned out he couldn't program his way out of a paper bag. (Maybe that fact that his name was Hak had something to do with it.)
As far as job requirements, I remember in about 1978 seeing an ad looking for someone with 15 years experience with microprocessors.
I thought one of that main reasons for building the LHC was to find the Higgs boson.