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- Path: netcom.com!russells
- From: russells@netcom.com (Russell Salsbury)
- Subject: Re: Need Professional advice (by a beginner)
- Message-ID: <russellsDpMpFx.29v@netcom.com>
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
- References: <316996F3.3343@netvision.net.il> <DpLu2y.MFF@iquest.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 04:21:33 GMT
- Sender: russells@netcom10.netcom.com
-
- dlmiller@iquest.net (Doug Miller) writes:
-
- >Bruce Klaydman <bruce@netvision.net.il> wrote:
- >>I want to be a professional programmer my question is
- >>can I do it on my own (without taking any courses) ?
- >>If so what books should I read, what language(s) should I study
- >>(should it be C or C++, or both)?
- >>
- >>Thank you.
- >>
- >>Bruce.
-
- >Question: would you propose attempting to become a surgeon "on [your] own (without taking
- >any courses)" ?
-
- >Then why do you suppose you could become a professional programmer (or a professional
- >anything, for that matter) without taking any courses ?
-
- I tried, but the people-compilers got mad when I put their executables
- under the debugging knife. :)
-
- Ryan russells@netcom.com
-