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- From: jeremy@newshost.li.net (Jeremy Markman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Need Professional advice (by a beginner)
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 02:00:30 GMT
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- 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)?
-
- Learning a language is relatively easy. Learning how to program is
- difficult. There is a big difference.
-
- I can tell countless stories of people who know the syntax of a language,
- but cannot formulate an algoritm to save their life.
-
- The best thing college taught me was not languages, in fact, 90% of the
- code I type is from languages I didn't know in college. The best thing I
- learned was how to approach the development of a program and, as
- logically follows, the development of the algorithms needed to make it
- work...
-
- In summary, I don't think you can get these skills from a book. You need
- a programming course, not a language course, and experience (which you
- can get my writing stuff on your own). The most successful people from
- my college days were the ones who played around on their own after their
- homework was completed...
-