Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote:
>
>Don't so quickly dismiss universities. I can not speak for all of them.
>In fact I can't speak for any other than my own. But to me the sheepskin
>is far less important than the skills. Not one of my students graduates
>without skills sufficient to walk into any company, sit down at any
>workstation, and analyze business problems and solve them using Oracle
>PL/SQL.
I don't care what languages or systems get taught at university as long as
the graduates come out with an ability to learn new concepts quickly, and
an analytical mind. A general background in data structures & algorithms,
concurrent systems and maybe some database theory might be useful.
A given programming language takes a couple of weeks to become useful in,
a few months to become competent. It take years to be able to learn how
to go about tackling abstract problems and understanding complex systems.
--
Andrew Mobbs - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~andrewm/
Received on Thu Nov 07 2002 - 06:29:27 CST
