RE: OT: School Days - (was: Lighten things up a little)

[Olive, Christopher M Mr USACHPPM]

the concepts are not "hard" to pick up on your own.  it's just that when you
spend ~4 years using them in CS assignments, you "own" them.  that is, you
have the theory so deeply entrenched that they beome invisible to you, and
second nature in your development efforts.

Chris Olive
DOHRS Website Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:30 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: School Days - (was: Lighten things up a little)


OK .. I'll give you that, but then again, how hard would it really be to
pick up on those concepts on your own?  I don't doubt the value of that
degree in certain situations; It *can* give you an edge.  In many cases,
especially when dealing with jobs involving new technology, just having the
degree is more important than what it's in .. if the degree is even
important at all.

A college education does tend to make one a more well rounded individual and
I suppose that's desirable to some people.  Unfortunately, the way I see it
is that the college degree won't play a big role for me until I get more
experience under my belt and move on up into much more competitive markets.
In today's computer age, you can go a good long ways without one, but they
really help if you want to get to the top :)  So .. I say if you have the
chance to go, take it.  It can't hurt and will help, even if indirectly.
Besides, I just want to say I is edumacated .. That's why I'm going back for
a masters in biology. :)

Heh .. wonder how I can work that into ColdFusion development?

hmmm .. <cf_mitosis>?
Or maybe start a new company, hire Linus Torlvolds and call it
Transmetaphase?

OK .. I'm just being silly now.

Seriously, has anyone had any experience with ColdFusion jobs where the
employers were concerned with the level of post secondary education?  I'm
really curious now.

.Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olive, Christopher M Mr USACHPPM"
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Lighten things up a little


| i'm afraid i'd have to disagree with that.  i may not "use" anything i
| learned in college in respect that they never taught me ASP, CF, IIS, etc.
| however, the concept of a stack, queue, linked list, structure, array,
etc.,
| is universal to languages (ok, well, most languages).  it is in
| *understanding* the concepts of these things that college shows its value.
| because of this (fairly) solid foundation in programming *theory*, i am
| better able to leverage my skill sets in languages i know.  more
| importantly, they help me in learning something new.  when you boil it
down,
| all languages are the same (ok, there are sub-types of programming
languages
| (procedural, functional, OO)), all you need to know is where to put the
semi
| colons.


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