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.
>>
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