22 Aug
2001
22 Aug
'01
5:03 p.m.
There is one (possibly unintentional) idea here that I
disagree with. And
it's that learning starts when you go to university and stops when you
leave (the '4 year degree').
FWIW, I've never taken a programming course or an electronics course. I'm
self-taught in both. I don't consider myself to be a particularly good
programmer (I can program, my programs do the job, but in general they're
neither bulletproof nor elegant), but I know enough to understand the
reasons for choosing a particular language (and why one-language-fits-all
is a very bad idea!), and to understand bits of OS internals and so on.
Me too. My degree is in linguistics, and soon an M.D. -- I got my previous
job as a programmer because I was trainable, not because I had the degree.
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