In all fairness, All the best programmers I've ever met have been self educated or hobbyists turned professional.
I've never considered academic studies in any fast moving industry a particularly good way to spend time, the curriculum is so out of date that the skills you learn have no relevance to the current industry when you finally graduate from the course. Short term or self study courses from platform providers such as Adobe and Microsoft make fair sense to me as the skills learned are so focused and the skills are relevant and useful. Rob -----Original Message----- From: John Paul Ashenfelter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 May 2007 20:52 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Absolutely amazing article - who the hell writes this stuff? On 5/25/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But you'd never see an OS written in PHP or Ruby either. That > > argument doesn't hold water. > > I don't think PHP would be a good choice for teaching basic programming, > either. Ruby would be suitable for that, on the other hand. For instance, http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_ltp/index.html (Learning to Program, by Chris Pine, which happens to teach programming using Ruby) Heck, MIT uses Scheme http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme/ to teach programming, right? And if memory serves, in many(?) European schools they use OCaml to teaching. Pascal used to be the one back in my day, but I'm sure by now none of you care much about what I think about programming :) > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279327 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
