On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Micha Feigin <[email protected]> wrote: > You could try looking at the open university, but the question is what do you > expect to get out of these courses.
I don't get anything out of those I'm afraid - books I can get and read on my own, but I'm looking for something more structured, and with more exercise... > > University courses I know don't teach you much about actual programming. I > would take at least one course about software engineering, preferably both > functional and object oriented, including uml and testing methodologies. Also > an object oriented course with emphasis on object oriented methodologies and > design. These have proven more invaluable to me than actual programing > courses. Computer structure and operating systems have also been very good, > but you have to read between the lines, as sometimes the interesting part of > the syllabus is hiding behind lecturers who are not even aware of it (initial > course in lisp in tau for example) Computer structure you say? I'll keep that in mind. In general, I'd like to get a hold of at least a list of courses to look for and their ordering. > I want to get some proper studies done because I've been touching some topics here and there, and ended up at a point where I can write a heavy recursive function in C or Python, but reading a bit of code where instead of int I see unsigned int puzzles me. > > "Dima (Dan) Yasny" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I'm looking for some advice on which courses and where to take, in the >>Central area. >> >>What I'm looking at is getting some more formal and proper programming >>background, something around >>Intro to C -> Advanced C -> intro to C++ -> Advanced C++ -> Linux >>specifics maybe... >> >>I tend to mostly work with Python, but I keep running into dead ends >>because I lack proper education more and more recently >> >>I am aware of proper BSc/BA programs, but I'd like to do this in under >>a year overall, and stay away from the extra math/physics/etc courses. >> >>Background - 15 years sysadmin, bash, python, powershell scripting >>Highschool pascal, prolog, magic, assembly etc - long forgotten mostly >> >>So if anyone is aware of a college of institution that provides such >>courses, preferrably as a set up program, I'll be very happy to hear >>about it >> >> >>Cheers, >>D. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Linux-il mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
