Re: Psychopathic Car Drivers (OT)

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:05:26 -0800 (PST), Rob Kleinschmidt
<Rkleinsch1216128@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 18, 2:28 pm, "Seth Hammond" <lesliesethhamm...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Neil T. Dantam" <ndan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:fmr0np$pu4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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Seth Hammond wrote:
"Neil T. Dantam" <ndan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Bob Myers wrote:
(Of course, I go back to the days when "working on the computer"
at Purdue meant you were down at the old ENAD building, pleading
with the CDC 6500 to accept your lousy deck of puched cards...)
Nowadays we just have to plead with the various IT departments for
access to the resources we need. Not much compared to the work of
all you pioneers.

In my humble experience, colleges were once the worst place to learn
programming. The best way by far was in schools run by manufacturers.

I think those are called certifications these, and my impression has
been that they're mostly just a racket. There are enough resources
out there now that the best way to learn to *program* is probably
just to teach yourself. Undergrad CS programs currently seem rather
confused as to whether they're training students for a vocation or
to do *science*.

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Schools run by NCR, IBM, Burroughs, Friden, etc were at first the *only*
computer schools. They were far from a racket. They trained the trainers
who trained the trainers. Without them, no college or university would have
computers today. Collectively, they were very slow to react to the market.
Most got their first computer for their Mathematics Department.

Computer programming is really quite simple. It's knowing how to use it for
specific use that's tough. I've always said first pick a discipline, then
learn how to program for it.

Every program can be reduced by one instruction

Every program has at least one bug in it

Therefore every program can be reduced to one instruction
with a bug in it.

'Undocumented features', please.



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