In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/16/2007
at 11:47 AM, "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>When I started, that was *the* way people got into system
>programming.
Well, I was never in operations.
As for training, not all classes are created equal. I still remember
being given a stack of 7070 manuals and told to read them prior to the
class, only to discover that the class only covered the material we
had already read. Some of the students were answering questions that
the instructor couldn't answer.
Then there was a DOS/360 Logic class that not only had an untrained
instructor, but one that had no access to the DOS developers.
Back when PLM's and source code were available to customers, learning
from those was often more productive than formal classes.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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