{"id":948091,"date":"2025-07-21T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948091"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:38:08","slug":"no-computer-science-degree-needed-only-to-learn-coding-googles-head-of-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/21\/no-computer-science-degree-needed-only-to-learn-coding-googles-head-of-android\/","title":{"rendered":"No computer science degree needed only to learn coding: Google&#8217;s head of Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sameer Samat, Google&#8217;s head of Android, believes the computer science degree needs a fresh \u201crebrand,\u201d according to a report by Business Insider. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that many people see it simply as learning to do Java coding, adding, &#8220;If that&#8217;s what you want to do, you don&#8217;t need a degree.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Samat, who studied computer science at UC San Diego, disagrees with this narrow view. He said, &#8220;It&#8217;s definitely not learning to code. It is the science, in my opinion, of solving problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sameer Samat, Google&#8217;s head of Android, believes the computer science degree needs a fresh \u201crebrand,\u201d according to a report by Business Insider. He explained that many people see it simply as learning to do Java coding, adding, &#8220;If that&#8217;s what you want to do, you don&#8217;t need a degree.&#8221; Samat, who studied computer science at UC San Diego, disagrees with this narrow view. He said, &#8220;It&#8217;s definitely not learning to code. It is the science, in my opinion, of solving problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}