which is your old country
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A real engineering degree is a valuable asset no matter what you do. Generally, the education gives you a broad inderstanding of technical matters with a huge stress on figuring out how to solve problems usually with incomplete data and/or conflicting requirements. That's the part that becomes invaluable. Writing software requires solving problems but your tool set is somewhat limited once you settle on a language, OS, etc, so it's just stringing the beads in a meaningful manner. The value added is if you really understand the problem and can contribute to the process to produce a better product rather than just coding what you're told.
Doing my part to piss off the religious right.
Tim Craig wrote:
A real engineering degree is a valuable asset no matter what you do. Generally, the education gives you a broad inderstanding of technical matters with a huge stress on figuring out how to solve problems usually with incomplete data and/or conflicting requirements.
Very much. I've got another perspective to this. Sometimes when I am stuck and things are just not working and when it seems insurmountable you know what I do, I think of Thermal Engineering. I think of Fluid Mechanics. I recall all the kinds of problems we had to solve there and suddenly the problem at hand becomes solvable! Somehow may be subconciously I feel writing software is easier.:~
Signature is a waste of time. I'll have one when I've got enough time to create. Well, I had enough a few seconds back.
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I'm a native. In "Professional Software Development" Steve McConnell* compares Computing Science to Software Engineering: * Scientists "build to know" and engineers "know to build". * Scientists are concerned with discovering the fundamental knowledge of one specific Science. Engineers borrow from several sciences to apply their knowledge to practical use. It's depth vs. breadth. As a CompSci major my greatest deficiency when started a career was on an engineering rigor. Engineering things like accurate estimates, tasks breakdown, documentation, defining requirements, understand economic/managerial processes, etc. was something the school never taught me very well. *Read everything Steve McConnell wrote; it will make you a better programmer.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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I'm a native. In "Professional Software Development" Steve McConnell* compares Computing Science to Software Engineering: * Scientists "build to know" and engineers "know to build". * Scientists are concerned with discovering the fundamental knowledge of one specific Science. Engineers borrow from several sciences to apply their knowledge to practical use. It's depth vs. breadth. As a CompSci major my greatest deficiency when started a career was on an engineering rigor. Engineering things like accurate estimates, tasks breakdown, documentation, defining requirements, understand economic/managerial processes, etc. was something the school never taught me very well. *Read everything Steve McConnell wrote; it will make you a better programmer.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
wow. I rarely agree with you, but I'll be damned if I can see why this was voted down. Here's a +5 to wipe away the grey.
Mike Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
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Computer Science, both Bachelor's and Master's.
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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wow. I rarely agree with you, but I'll be damned if I can see why this was voted down. Here's a +5 to wipe away the grey.
Mike Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
Mike Gaskey wrote:
Here's a +5 to wipe away the grey.
Hey, that was nice. Thanks! :)
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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I'm a native. In "Professional Software Development" Steve McConnell* compares Computing Science to Software Engineering: * Scientists "build to know" and engineers "know to build". * Scientists are concerned with discovering the fundamental knowledge of one specific Science. Engineers borrow from several sciences to apply their knowledge to practical use. It's depth vs. breadth. As a CompSci major my greatest deficiency when started a career was on an engineering rigor. Engineering things like accurate estimates, tasks breakdown, documentation, defining requirements, understand economic/managerial processes, etc. was something the school never taught me very well. *Read everything Steve McConnell wrote; it will make you a better programmer.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
Diego Moita wrote:
Read everything Steve McConnell wrote; it will make you a better programmer.
Amen. And every team lead/project mgr. should be required to take a very tough exam based on Rapid Development.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Mechanical Engineering.
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
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Mechanical Engineering.
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Satips, Which university?
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