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- From: rhealey@dellr4.digibd.com (Rob Healey)
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 22:25:29 GMT
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- In article <BtwJGC.1F1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
- |> >This is one of the main reasons that the Computing Sciences Accreditation
- |> >Board was formed by ACM and IEEE-CS in the mid-80s. Programs that are
- |> >accredited through CSAB must require 2/5 of a year of science (four courses,
- |> >including the equivalent of a two-semester sequence in a lab science for
- |> >science majors, and ...
- |>
- |> I do not see why somebody intending to programming work, even in a real
- |> world setting, needs two semesters of lab science.
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- Data gathering skills, observation skills, statistical analysis
- of data taken skills. All needed in many programming areas
- where you are controlling or monitoring something. How do you
- construct a test to see if your code handles all inputs with
- proper outputs? Experience in labs can help with this skill even
- though on the surface it seems like a stretch.
-
- Overall, people are good or bad developers/engineers because
- of the efforts they make to go BEYOND what teachers regurgitate
- at them in class. 95% of what I do on a daily basis is similar
- to experiences I exposed myself to OUTSIDE of classes or school
- per say.
-
- People who just study books and ace tests make poor
- business employees but fairly good academics, i.e. LOT'S of
- theory but little experience to back that theory up.
-
- IMHO,
-
- -Rob
-