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"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter." A good (non generic) answer to "What should I learn?" (asked by a self educated programmer here) depends on the answer to the question "What (kind of programmer) do you want to be?" Step 1, answer the Cheshire cat! )

derefr 16y ago
What you miss out on from an undergraduate CS degree is a survey of the field—the original poster already likely has specialized knowledge, but is missing the general knowledge breadth that you get through academic subjects that don't have immediate application to your own work projects. So your question isn't helpful, or rather its answer should be "the kind of programmer who would better be able to answer that question."
maayank 16y ago
I just want to single out the ')' at the end of the post, a classic Cheshire Cat smile where you only see immediately his smile but not his face/eyes (i.e. compare with ":)"). If this is a coincidence and you done it by mistake (i.e. mistakenly have not put a ':') then this is one sweet coincidence. If not, then kudos to you :)
- plinkplonk 16y ago
  heh I did that deliberately(You can see there is no balancing '(' in the post), but I didn't expect anyone to catch it or even notice it. :-). I was just having some fun. (For the perplexed) In "Alice In Wonderland" the Cheshire Cat fades away till nothing is left but its grin So I removed the ":-" from ":-)".
  - derefr 16y ago
    Note that the ":-" isn't strictly necessary: both Ambrose Bierce and Vladimir Nabokov, independently reflecting on their desires for the addition of a "typographic equivalent to a smile" before one ever existed in popular culture, proposed a simple "supine round bracket" or "\___/".
warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
In addition, who are you? Do you see yourself as a mechanic (brilliant with tools), a mathematician (brilliant with symbols) or a philosopher (brilliant with ideas)? Give us a clue and those who are like-minded can jump in with what they find useful.

derefr 16y ago

What you miss out on from an undergraduate CS degree is a survey of the field—the original poster already likely has specialized knowledge, but is missing the general knowledge breadth that you get through academic subjects that don't have immediate application to your own work projects. So your question isn't helpful, or rather its answer should be "the kind of programmer who would better be able to answer that question."

maayank 16y ago

I just want to single out the ')' at the end of the post, a classic Cheshire Cat smile where you only see immediately his smile but not his face/eyes (i.e. compare with ":)"). If this is a coincidence and you done it by mistake (i.e. mistakenly have not put a ':') then this is one sweet coincidence. If not, then kudos to you :)

plinkplonk 16y ago
heh I did that deliberately(You can see there is no balancing '(' in the post), but I didn't expect anyone to catch it or even notice it. :-). I was just having some fun. (For the perplexed) In "Alice In Wonderland" the Cheshire Cat fades away till nothing is left but its grin So I removed the ":-" from ":-)".
- derefr 16y ago
  Note that the ":-" isn't strictly necessary: both Ambrose Bierce and Vladimir Nabokov, independently reflecting on their desires for the addition of a "typographic equivalent to a smile" before one ever existed in popular culture, proposed a simple "supine round bracket" or "\___/".

warmfuzzykitten 16y ago

In addition, who are you? Do you see yourself as a mechanic (brilliant with tools), a mathematician (brilliant with symbols) or a philosopher (brilliant with ideas)? Give us a clue and those who are like-minded can jump in with what they find useful.