Re: advice

Baxter wrote
(in article <11ha19mohm05deb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

>
> "Randy Howard" <randyhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:0001HW.BF3A66F10078B4F2F0407550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> osmium wrote
>> (in article <3nkacgF20e8pU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>>
>>>
>>> I think you are not cut out to be a professional programmer.
>>
>> Bull. Lots of people procrastinate in college, often because
>> some of the assignments are boring as hell, and many obviously
>> don't have any real-world application, they're just some stupid
>> thing the prof dreamed up to put you through a specific set of
>> techniques or algorithms.
>
>
> -Every- larger program you write is a building block in your library. If
> you're not saving and reusing some of that code, you'll never be a
> programmer. Every program you write gives you potential tools or materials
> for the next program.

Yeah, you never know when a fortune 500 company will ask you to
write a tower of hanoi game for a text console. ;-)




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