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Posted by Bent Stigsen on 06/21/06 00:13
Bent Stigsen wrote:
> Geoff Berrow wrote:
>
>> Message-ID: <1429010.hoIdy6yUov@thevoid.dk> from Bent Stigsen contained
>> the following:
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>>>> Maybe, but probably not. You don't get much real world experience in
>>>> college. I should know, I'm a lecturer.
>>>
>>>What kind of college are we talking about. My dictionary says "small
>>>university". I'm not sure what that implies. Is it anything like a
>>>regular university, where you get bachelor/master degrees?
>>
>> I don't think it matters. You can't beat real world experience.
>
> I wasn't really going to contend that. Programming can be a very I know a
> few who do very well without pretty much any formal education, one of them
> smoked so much pot that he hardly got through highschool (or whats
> equivalent I think). Much programming really is just hammer to nail.
Gaah, forgot I hadn't finished that. Couldn't quite find the right words.
What I was trying to say, programming can be very like the profession of
blacksmiths, carpenters, et.c. people who build things with their hands.
Instead of metal or wood, it's chunks of code put together into modules,
modules together into applications and to a whole system.
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/Bent
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