comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: A Programmer's Education

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: A Programmer's Education

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: A Programmer's Education [message #51706 is a reply to message #51698]

Tue, 05 December 2006 09:56

Paul Van Delst[1]
Messages: 1157
Registered: April 2002

Senior Member

David Fanning wrote:
>> Braedley writes:
>
>>> Why don't I ever see these simple solutions?
>
>> You are probably University-educated. Not your fault. :-)
>
> While we are on this topic (and while I wait for SOLARSOFT
> to finish downloading), what is the most useful class you
> ever took in school?

Easy. Programming in Fortran 251. Not so much for the Fortran stuff (it was taught to us
physics majors, with drippingly evident disdain, by a CS professor) but because said prof
failed me on the first assignment because I was the only one in the class that had ordered
the (correct) results opposite from everyone else. When I confronted him about it
mentioning that he never specified an order in the assignment, he grudgingly (at least,
how I remember it) agreed and gave me an appropriate mark. That's when I learned that
smart people are sometimes just as dumb as the rest of us. No more pedestals for me! :o)

> For me, two come immediately to mind. The typing class
> I took as a sophomore in high school because I was a shy
> boy and the girl/boy ratio was 15:1. I use that knowledge
> every single day of my life. (In, uh, more ways than one.)
>
> And the freshman English Composition class I took in my
> first semester of college from a hippie instructor who
> gently taught a good evangelical Christian boy to question
> everything.

Hmmm...maybe there's a theme here. The important lessons that one remembers are those that
provide more questions than answers. (Although, nothing earth-shattering there I guess).

paulv

--
Paul van Delst Ride lots.
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC Eddy Merckx
Ph: (301)763-8000 x7748
Fax:(301)763-8545

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: A Programmer's Education By: David Fanning on Tue, 05 December 2006 13:12
		Re: A Programmer's Education By: David Fanning on Tue, 05 December 2006 13:00
		Re: A Programmer's Education By: btt on Tue, 05 December 2006 12:57
		Re: A Programmer's Education By: Braedley on Tue, 05 December 2006 12:34
		Re: A Programmer's Education By: Pete Warner on Tue, 05 December 2006 12:17
		Re: A Programmer's Education By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 05 December 2006 09:56

Previous Topic:	Re: Mapping countries
Next Topic:	Philosophical Scaling Question

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Fri Nov 28 09:18:28 PST 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.00904 seconds