Sounds like a good school. I do not think my JC experience was a s
good.
On 2022-08-22 19:13, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 15:35 +0000, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Am 22. Aug, 2022 schwätzte greg zegan via PLUG-discuss so:
Community college won't get you all the way to CS or EE, but you can
get a
bunch of the non-domain specific classes that way.
You wouldn't believe all I learned at Santa Monica Community College
(SMC) in the
1980's. Most important, I learned the program architecture tool of that
era,
functional decomposition. At SMC I learned to design both Cobol and
Pascal programs
using functional decomposition. And by learning Pascal, I had a leg up
learning C,
Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, and pretty much every language that can
be used
procedurally.
SMC taught me systems analysis, the art, science and procedure of
querying for user
requirements, incorporating them into the design, planning the
project, writing the
specs, and implementing them in code. As a freelancer, this gave me a
huge
advantage, because I could dig down to what the user/customer REALLY
wanted, tell
them whether it was feasable within time/budget constraints, and then
deliver the
software.
I don't know if community colleges are still as good, and I suspect
California
community colleges are the best, and SMC is among the best of them, but
my
experience tells me that a few courses at a community college can
jumpstart your
career.
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