Assuming you don't want to work for the same company for ever, you need to understand that no matter how good you think you are, these days a Computer Science or other relevant degree is a basic requirement for many if not most software developer positions. You learn a lot of really useful fundamental concepts on a CS degree course that will be highly relevant, used and needed throughout your whole career. Ususally the only people who dont agree with the value of a CS degree for software engineers are those who don't have one, so don't know what they don't know.
This is absolutely true. Any 'real' company is going to require a CS or related degree. A good company will also pay for more education, so use it!
Anecdotal advice from other engineers, googling, an inquisitive mind, and even experience are no substitutes for understanding the basics of computational theory. As stated in the parent post, if you can't get a whole degree under your belt, at least take a few credits. Your code will be better as a result.
I completely agree with you. By the way, I've got a slightly used Denon ethernet cable I'm trying to sell. I've gone ahead and shaken all the stale bits out so I'm sure its good as new. $200 and its yours!
I've seemed to misplace my analog 1080i cable. Do you know where I can get one? Perhaps Denon sells one...
The big ten (although centered around athletics) is not just an athletic conference. As a student at PSU I had access to the other school's libraries. I beleive there is also some sort of faculty cooperation, guest lecturing, and cross University research opportunities among the schools. And just to clarify, Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1990 (Penn != Penn Satate)
It looks like these things are GSM micro-cells. I wonder why the military went with a TDMA based system? CDMA (think Verizon) provides much better "encryption" by default (and you can jam more people on a cell). I put encryption in quotes because the actual transmitted signal just looks like noise. You have no way of knowing if someone is even transmitting let alone trying to demodulate the mangled mess of a CDMA signal.
Teachers should be paid more period. I don't understand why a profession as integral to the success of our society is so grossly undervalued. My sister is a secondary math teacher and makes far less than half what I make as a software engineer. Thats sick. These people are important and society NEEDS them. Without better pay these very intelligent people are going to go persue other careers. I propose we do away with astronomical hollywood and pro sports salaries and give it to the people that matter. No, the next star studded la la land production doesn't matter, teachers do. Sorry for the rant, but this just makes me sick.
or its because they want to make a living selling their hard work without fear of someone recompiling and distributing the software free of charge or without their authorization. Not that I condone a VOIP app reading the BIOS.
You open source hippies often forget that people need to eat. Licesnses and words only go so far, they don't physically stop someone from stealing your hard work. In most cases, it has nothing to do with being ashamed or deceptive.
Open source is great. I love the community aspect involved and Linux and its open source components taught me a great deal about system software through college. Although I (we?) understand that open source should be used for education and general computing safety, there are far more people out there that are not as cavalier. Open source is not the solution for everything. To demand everything should be is just foolish. (Thinking out loud here, is there an open source anti-virus app? probably... thats just silly)
So go ahead and mod me a troll, but please TBYP (think before you post).
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Assuming you don't want to work for the same company for ever, you need to understand that no matter how good you think you are, these days a Computer Science or other relevant degree is a basic requirement for many if not most software developer positions. You learn a lot of really useful fundamental concepts on a CS degree course that will be highly relevant, used and needed throughout your whole career. Ususally the only people who dont agree with the value of a CS degree for software engineers are those who don't have one, so don't know what they don't know.
This is absolutely true. Any 'real' company is going to require a CS or related degree. A good company will also pay for more education, so use it! Anecdotal advice from other engineers, googling, an inquisitive mind, and even experience are no substitutes for understanding the basics of computational theory. As stated in the parent post, if you can't get a whole degree under your belt, at least take a few credits. Your code will be better as a result.
go get a degree in CS before you get anywhere near a compiler. That should give you your best practices and keep you from doing anything stupid.
I completely agree with you. By the way, I've got a slightly used Denon ethernet cable I'm trying to sell. I've gone ahead and shaken all the stale bits out so I'm sure its good as new. $200 and its yours!
I've seemed to misplace my analog 1080i cable. Do you know where I can get one? Perhaps Denon sells one...
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The big ten (although centered around athletics) is not just an athletic conference. As a student at PSU I had access to the other school's libraries. I beleive there is also some sort of faculty cooperation, guest lecturing, and cross University research opportunities among the schools. And just to clarify, Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1990 (Penn != Penn Satate)
It looks like these things are GSM micro-cells. I wonder why the military went with a TDMA based system? CDMA (think Verizon) provides much better "encryption" by default (and you can jam more people on a cell). I put encryption in quotes because the actual transmitted signal just looks like noise. You have no way of knowing if someone is even transmitting let alone trying to demodulate the mangled mess of a CDMA signal.
Teachers should be paid more period. I don't understand why a profession as integral to the success of our society is so grossly undervalued. My sister is a secondary math teacher and makes far less than half what I make as a software engineer. Thats sick. These people are important and society NEEDS them. Without better pay these very intelligent people are going to go persue other careers. I propose we do away with astronomical hollywood and pro sports salaries and give it to the people that matter. No, the next star studded la la land production doesn't matter, teachers do. Sorry for the rant, but this just makes me sick.
or its because they want to make a living selling their hard work without fear of someone recompiling and distributing the software free of charge or without their authorization. Not that I condone a VOIP app reading the BIOS.
You open source hippies often forget that people need to eat. Licesnses and words only go so far, they don't physically stop someone from stealing your hard work. In most cases, it has nothing to do with being ashamed or deceptive.
Open source is great. I love the community aspect involved and Linux and its open source components taught me a great deal about system software through college. Although I (we?) understand that open source should be used for education and general computing safety, there are far more people out there that are not as cavalier. Open source is not the solution for everything. To demand everything should be is just foolish. (Thinking out loud here, is there an open source anti-virus app? probably... thats just silly)
So go ahead and mod me a troll, but please TBYP (think before you post).