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Re^7: [OT:] Is this Curriculum right?

by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop)
on Nov 26, 2021 at 23:51 UTC ( [id://11139155]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^6: [OT:] Is this Curriculum right?
in thread [OT:] Is this Curriculum right?

> it was like talking to a horse as we say in German
Thanks for the lesson in German idioms! What I love about Perl monks is you can't predict what new things you'll learn each time you log in. :)

I think I agree with your sentiment ... unless I've totally misunderstood due to my lack of fluency in German :). Sadly, I can't think of a single thing I learnt at Melbourne University that was of pratical use in the workplace, it was all way too theoretical ... while a lot of the stuff I learnt at good old RMIT night school was of immediate practical use on the job next morning ... though I see working class RMIT has now become a "University". Oh well. :)

For every one Alexander Stepanov, writing complex and powerful low level libraries, or Larry Wall, designing post-modern programming languages, there are thousands of journeyman programmers being paid to get their job done by using these languages, libraries and frameworks. And, frankly, you wouldn't want to let most of them near such intricate code. Though I'd love to have a well paid job designing languages or low level libraries, there aren't many positions available.

Though a brief lesson on data structure concepts (arrays/vectors, strings, maps, hashes, trees, and yes, linked lists) is basic and essential, a more practical education would spend more time on using them, rather than implementing them.

Please let me know if I've misunderstood the point you were trying to make.

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