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Higher Education for Mentally Handicapped?

Posted by Cliff on from the searching-for-other-options dept.

Anonymous Coward asks: "I am an autistic high-schooler, who is currently in special education. I am very bright, but I lack the ability to do even very basic math. I am interested in Technology and Computers very much, but after looking at the requirements for a computer science major, there is no way I can do all that. What options, other than college, are available for a good education?"

3 of 86 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Computers and Math by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Quicksort has a worst-case of O(n^2) - it's only O(n log n) in the expected case.

    I think the significance (or lack of) of this distinction is a good example of what the original poster was getting at in the first place.

  2. Re:Computers and Math by nickos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I clicked on your link and found this line from ESR:

    "this is why every good hacker is part mystic".

    What a load of crap! Just because ESR thinks he's "a shaman and a vessel of the Goat-Foot God", that doesn't mean other hackers have to.

  3. Re:Computers and Math by orthogonal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What a load of crap! Just because ESR thinks he's "a shaman and a vessel of the Goat-Foot God", that doesn't mean other hackers have to.

    So then are Microsoft Visual Basic programmers are the shamans and vessels of the Goatse.cx Guy/God?

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