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- From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
- Subject: Re: Any hope for me..?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.173728.6630@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Sequoia Peripherals, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:37:28 GMT
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- In article <C0Hty1.DvH@netnews.jhuapl.edu> bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy) writes:
-
- >Why is it that they'll let anyone program, but let a non-EE major (for
- >example) apply for an EE job, and he's eliminated from consideration
- >immediately?
- >
-
- Because Computer Science is not yet nearly as mature a
- discipline as Electrical Engineering is. Yes, it is
- important to have knowledge of various types of data
- structures and it is important to understand how to
- do a good design when programming and there are lots
- of other things that one learns while getting a CS
- degree that are important to know to be a good programmer.
-
- But one can pick them up after one begins programming,
- and most of them are pretty intuitive to someone bright
- just entering the field. A bright mathematician or philosopher
- or physicist is likely to be a good programmer after working
- as a programmer for 6 months to a year.
-
- On the other hand, if you threw me into a job where I had to
- serious digital design, I would be hopelessly lost. There's
- just too much one needs to know before he even gets started.
-
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