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> This is where having proper engineering/mathematical training pays off. Rather, this is where personal research skills are needed. I cannot imagine a progra
by 112233 9y ago
> This is where having proper engineering/mathematical training pays off.
Rather, this is where personal research skills are needed.
I cannot imagine a programmer "hacking around" without researching existing solutions for obviously difficult problem.
To put it differently, none of the colledge Comp Sci "training" has yet been of any use in my 20 years of programming work.
- WalterBright 9y ago> none of the colledge Comp Sci "training" has yet been of any use in my 20 years of programming work I don't have a CS degree. But I have taken college CS courses, and have been able to apply them directly to solve problems I worked on later.
- 112233 9y agoProbably depends on how they make curriculum. Some of the things I remember having been taught: runge-kutta analythic geometry turbo pascal (or one of his relatives) DFA/NFA Some of the things I find useful at work: memory and cache behaviour on different archs Dijkstra's algorithm posix I mean, chance of being lucky to learn exactly the things that will be useful in programming (as opposed to other less volatile arts) is a small one.