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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: Any hope for me..?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.171728.18773@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: Is there any hope for the CS major ...
- Organization: :
- References: <C0CC1w.2F5@netnews.jhuapl.edu> <726355710snz@panache.demon.co.uk> <C0Hty1.DvH@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:17:28 GMT
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- In article <C0Hty1.DvH@netnews.jhuapl.edu>, bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy) writes:
- > raph@panache.demon.co.uk (Raphael mankin) writes:
-
- > >When I employ programmers I prefer those with a degree in English or History
- > >or Physics, or anything except CS. They tend to have more rounded knowledge
- > >and don't think that they know it all.
-
- > >...
-
- > I've had the (mis)fortune to work with a lot of EEs who were thrown
- > into programming without any college computer coursework. ...
-
- > 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 we know, more or less, how to teach EE. We don't know how to teach
- applied CS. We can't teach `programming with the necessary theory' because
- we don't know what that theory _is_.
-
- Perhaps the best person is someone who learned how to program outside the
- CS structure, _then_ got a CS degree. (Like me ;'}, of course.)
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-