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Computer science has one of the highest unemployment rates (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Want to get a job in software development? You don't need a degree at all! What you need is to demonstrate your skills with whatever tools/software employers are demanding. The simplest way to do that is with posting some open source code to GitHub (or similar).

From my experience you certainly need both

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

In my experience technical knowledge can fill the gap, but it has to be demonstrable.