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- From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
- Subject: Re: Any hope for me..?
- Message-ID: <C0CC1w.2F5@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan3.015936.2526@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan4.150757.28742@stsci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:46:43 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >BTW: My backgound is physics and astronomy.
-
- I'm from the other camp. I have a masters degree in Computer Science and
- feel that my university experience honed my skills by offering me
- theory matched with challenging projects. I also have 13 years of
- professional programming, but I feel that it wasn't until I finished
- my BS several years ago, and now my masters this year that my programming
- skills have really taken off. Another item in my background is that
- I've worked in several fields; from business systems to distributed
- process control to systems management to large scale digital signal
- processing. There's nothing like a little variety to round out the
- background.
-
- But if there's three things you can do to be good, I'd have to say
- they were: practice, practice, and practice!
-
- --
-
- Mike Bandy
- bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
- Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
-