>> Well for me WTTC was all I needed.
This web and media program was the only stepping stone I needed
to get the fantastic job that I have now.
You learn some of the real world issues that you're going to run into.
[Inaudible] basically when you're working on a project and the deadline is coming up
and there's more issues than you anticipated,
you have to account for that and work through that.
It can be well [inaudible] at these times because of these issues and debugging and going
through the code and looking for that missing semicolon that you have.
But a lot of it was just preparation for the real world.
You should be someone that works well under pressure and is willing to learn
and try anything and just the determination to reach the goal to provide what the client needs.
Real world experience is the best way you're going to learn anything
in this kind of field especially.
You can get by teaching yourself a lot of different things.
I taught myself PHP framework Laravel at one of my jobs.
And it's just a matter of teaching yourself what you don't know.
The degree here, it's a great starting place.
It'll prepare you for what you need to teach yourself in the future, and then once you're
out in the real world and you have clients that say I need this kind of project, you can say,
"I don't quite know that yet but I will work to learn that and make that happen."
Well my first job was actually my internship.
It gives the student the first opportunity at real world experience to really step into that
and learn the issues and the problems that you have to overcome, and that will just prepare you
for that first job that you have.
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