Rod

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by Rod 18y ago
IMHO, you don't need to know much theory to do testing. Programming is not a science, it's more of an art. Artisans don't need PhD's in Discrete Math to get their job done. Instead, they need passion, perseverance and tenacity. It's good th
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by Rod 18y ago
I started with VB too ;-) I got some bad habits, but later I learned C and it was ok. The advantage of starting with VB is that it's very easy. However, these days there are other languages that are easy to learn and that are more powerful
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by Rod 18y ago
While I do agree that electronics is learned by experimentation, IMHO the Arduino board is a bad starting point. I think that the best way to learn electronics is to start with the very basics (resistors, capacitors, coils, voltage dividers
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by Rod 18y ago
+1, Gratuitous, yet hilarious, musical interlude ;-) It cracked me up, LOL
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by Rod 18y ago
Have you read this? "Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science", by Mor Harchol-Balter ( http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf ) It's quite good. Since you have been in grad school already, many of the things won't be new
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by Rod 18y ago
This book might interest you (assuming you don't have it already): ODEs and Dynamical Systems (by Gerald Teschl) http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/book-ode/ode.pdf
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by Rod 18y ago
I whole-heartedly agree with everything you wrote. I competed in Math competitions while in high school but never made it to the IMO. My friends who went to the IMO were doubtlessly very smart, but they had something else: they had many yea