On Thu, May 12, Robert Merrill wrote: > > For example: high-level schools (locally, think UofU, BYU) teach a lot > of theory and hard math. It's good stuff, but in some corporations > these students come out more interested in the academics of solving > the problem than getting code to commit on deadline and shipping the > next release.
Curiously, I think my programming career has been enhanced at least as much by my Physics degree as by the handful of programming courses I took. In the physics classes, programming was just a way to get a result faster than cranking through everything by hand, so it encouraged straightforward and correct code. Even more to the point, the very word makes certain managers automatically assume I'm smart, which has opened some great doors. Granted, as much as I disliked CS-235 while taking it, the awareness of big-O has helped me tremendously in finding bottlenecks and choosing decent algorithms. - Eric /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
