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- From: kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball)
- Subject: Re: Any hope for me..?
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:07:57 GMT
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- Dave Eisen (dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan2.215528.1@npe.isnet.inmos.co.uk> adcrumpler@npe.isnet.inmos.co.uk writes:
- :
- : >
- : >What I'd like to know is:- What range of academic qualifications
- : >do the various contributors possess ? And can I, who didnt really
- : >make the most of his schooldays, hope to attain similar levels
- : >of knowledge and competence as you all possess ?
- :
- : Academic qualifications are not real important for programming. I
- : have all kinds of academic qualifications, none of which are in
- : CS or engineering. I learned all I know about C, UNIX, programming,
- : and the rest of CS by reading books, having a job which forced me
- : to learn a little bit, reading the net, and sitting in on a few courses.
-
- I'll second this. All I ever learned in a formal classroom was Fortran.
- C, Unix, etc. are, IMHO, best learned at the keyboard (maybe with K&R2
- at your elbow). I don't think your (adcrumpler's) future depends as much
- on how you spent your school days as how you'll spend the next couple of
- years.
-
- tdk
-
- BTW: My backgound is physics and astronomy.
-
- BTWBTW: adcrumpler, if you don't know:
- "K&R2" means _The C Programming Language_, 2nd Edition,
- by Kernighan and Ritchie.
-
-