Re: Can you learn computer science from a school?
- From: Mark Tarver <dr.mtarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 May 2007 10:17:15 -0700
On 15 May, 18:11, Ties Stuij <cjst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I get the impression that a lot of the posts here use self-taught as a
synonym for untaught. But i find that you can learn yourself the
theoretical background behind programming rather well through books
bought on the internet. And those total a hell of a lot less than a
university degree. Of course you miss the social net of correction,
but you also miss the opportunity to waste an awful lot of time in
demoralizing classes with little added or even subtracted value,
except for being strongholds of the motivator of punishment.
/Ties
Actually - thinking about it - nearly the whole staff of my CS
department circa 1990 were *not trained in CS but entered CS from
another discipline.* In that sense computing is like the Wild
West. If you can shoot straight and stay on your horse, you're in -
and it doesn't matter where you came from.
Mark
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