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> If you want to learn how to be a coder, > go to DeVry, or read some O'Reilly books > and hack away. Your career will be mercifully > short and uneventful.
by jawngee 17y ago
> If you want to learn how to be a coder,
> go to DeVry, or read some O'Reilly books
> and hack away. Your career will be mercifully
> short and uneventful.
What a condescending thing to say.
I went to art school.
My career has been going strong for 15+ years.
- jawngee 17y agowtf?
- Locke1689 17y agoSorry, but there's a difference between programmers and computer scientists. He's talking about the latter.
- jawngee 17y agoOh yeah, what's the difference?
- bricestacey 17y agoIn my opinion, the computer scientist is focused more on the academic and completes his work in the form of a paper. On the other hand, the programmer actually builds a product that is intended to be used. They ignore this distinction at my school (UMass Boston). The general consensus seems to be that programming is a lowly task. Perhaps your experiences are different, but at the end of the day there is a sharp conflict of interest between the computer scientist and the programmer. Both want to solve problems, but the computer scientist seems more interested in some math problem and the programmer is more interested in building cool shit.
- Locke1689 17y agoComputer science is as much about analyzing the properties of computation as it is about writing programs. Graph theory, computational complexity, data structures and algorithm design and analysis, etc. are all computer science topics. Implementing solutions in code is programming.