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- From: wilsonch@newt.CS.ORST.EDU (The Water Walker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.informix,comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 03:40:36 GMT
- Organization: Oregon State University, College of Engineering
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- >This is the kind of claptrap that really irratates me. I have found through
- >my 20 years of experience that the *best* computer people are those who have
- >not had to go to college to learn something. They were able to pick up a
- >book, on their own, sit down with only their own personal motivation and learn
- >something.
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- I agree with this. I personally have learned more from reading books and
- coding on my own than from any class I've ever taken. I've seen people
- come out of thier first CS class, an intro to C++, writing program
- involving polymorphism and not understanding what they were actually
- doing. Alot of them barely even understood the basic syntax and what the
- reserved words even are. The system is designed to just run you through
- the material and be able to regurgitate enough info to pass an exam.
- They don't care if you actually know what to do with the knowledge.
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- >I take college courses to learn the things I am interested in, not the things
- >that are required in order to keep college professors employed.
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