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- From: wilsonch@newt.CS.ORST.EDU (The Water Walker)
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- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions Summary: Expires:
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 17:17:50 GMT
- Organization: Oregon State University, College of
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- In article <DMJ15v.13C@falcon.daytonoh.attgis.com>,
- Dick Menninger <Dick.Menninger@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM> wrote:
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- >In my experience, people who took readily to math and
- >physics readily developed a high level of maturity in software
- >development, as well. Coding is only a small part of modern
- >programming. Creating an abstract model of things is much
- >a part of it and is much like forming a physical theory. You
- >must understand what is important and what should be ignored.
- >You must be able to do theorem-like work to do many calculations
- >in the most appropriate form. That happens in business
- >problems as well as other contexts.
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- I understand all that, and that the problem solving skill are good, and I
- know why they want us to take it. However, I have a friend (a recent
- graduate) who has absolutly _no_ physics classes and he's having no
- problems. I'm actually a victim of recent program changes. Not to
- mention that our CS department is largly into the theoritical side of
- things.
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- >So, a CS degree is a good filter for many jobs. You should
- >look very hard at why you had trouble. Was it ability or
- >attitude or inadequate background or lack of applying yourself?
- >If you were inadequately prepared, it would be worth your
- >while to go back and fix that. Life can be hard sometimes
- >and each of us must be willing to take responsibility and
- >control of ourselves and work hard when life is hard.
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- Agreed. but life is also unjust and unfair. :-)
- Now, my question is what about someone who has a BS, in something else
- and a minor in CS?
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