The award for the database copy should be thrown out. Oracle bought Rdb (I cant remember if it was from digital or Compaq) a few years ago and with it got all of their technology
If you are only interested in getting a job then go to a Tech school. The people I have known with two year tech degrees could write code around are people with 4 year degrees and were paid well.
If you want to learn more about the world and life then go to the university and stress about getting done if 4 years take your time and take a few courses that have nothing to do with your major. it will be your last chance without all of lives other problems to deal with. If you are good the money will still be there when you graduated. Make friends for they will be the best friends you have. After graduating you tend to have co-workers that come and go but not the true friends that you make in college.
It is obvious that you did not read the book. Much like Starship Troopers the only thing that the movie and book had in common was the title.
I was embarased by the movie but I should have expected it when Costner was the leading actor.
I have been out of school now for 10 years and would love to change careers if I could find something that came close to having the same compensation. Now to my point.
Most "programmer" positions at the companies I have worked for having someone with a 4 year degree is a waste and leads to the person who gets the job getting bored and looking for the cash - "If I hate the job I might as well get paid alot to do it."
I did work at one company that did hire many great programmers from the local community college. They did a great job a writting code, better than many people with advanced degree. Where this company fell short is that it would then try to use these people in analyst positions where they had been great at pounding out code they didnt understand the larger business issues.
Maybe the computer profession should become more like others where engineers do the brain work and techs do the grunt work. Example - power distribution engineer designs the power grid the lineman goes out and strings the wires. Both are happy to be doing what they are good at and you wouldnt want one doing the others job. Would you want a electrical engineer to wire house? Or a mechanical engineer to work on your car? This is what we often do in computer profession and it leads to frustrated people who cant wait to get out
Train people who dont want to go and get a four year degree to be coders and let people who see the bigger picture spend their time coming up with the ideas
One of the biggest areas the government is helpign out right now is the area of trade. M$ get government to pay for its way over sees and then spits on its laws.
I believe that M$ has been behaving itself (relatively) since the case started. I don't believe that all of the PC makers would be selling machines with Linux on them if the antitrust case had never started. Now that M$ has been given the nod that it can do anything it wants I am expecting companies such as Dell and Compaq to start announcing that they are discontinuing their Linux support due to lack of interest.
Hopefully the genie is out of the bottle but I think today it a dark day for computer users everywhere.
May you live in interesting times.
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The award for the database copy should be thrown out. Oracle bought Rdb (I cant remember if it was from digital or Compaq) a few years ago and with it got all of their technology
If you are only interested in getting a job then go to a Tech school. The people I have known with two year tech degrees could write code around are people with 4 year degrees and were paid well. If you want to learn more about the world and life then go to the university and stress about getting done if 4 years take your time and take a few courses that have nothing to do with your major. it will be your last chance without all of lives other problems to deal with. If you are good the money will still be there when you graduated. Make friends for they will be the best friends you have. After graduating you tend to have co-workers that come and go but not the true friends that you make in college.
It is obvious that you did not read the book. Much like Starship Troopers the only thing that the movie and book had in common was the title. I was embarased by the movie but I should have expected it when Costner was the leading actor.
I have been out of school now for 10 years and would love to change careers if I could find something that came close to having the same compensation. Now to my point.
Most "programmer" positions at the companies I have worked for having someone with a 4 year degree is a waste and leads to the person who gets the job getting bored and looking for the cash - "If I hate the job I might as well get paid alot to do it."
I did work at one company that did hire many great programmers from the local community college. They did a great job a writting code, better than many people with advanced degree. Where this company fell short is that it would then try to use these people in analyst positions where they had been great at pounding out code they didnt understand the larger business issues. Maybe the computer profession should become more like others where engineers do the brain work and techs do the grunt work. Example - power distribution engineer designs the power grid the lineman goes out and strings the wires. Both are happy to be doing what they are good at and you wouldnt want one doing the others job. Would you want a electrical engineer to wire house? Or a mechanical engineer to work on your car? This is what we often do in computer profession and it leads to frustrated people who cant wait to get out
Train people who dont want to go and get a four year degree to be coders and let people who see the bigger picture spend their time coming up with the ideas
One of the biggest areas the government is helpign out right now is the area of trade. M$ get government to pay for its way over sees and then spits on its laws.
I believe that M$ has been behaving itself (relatively) since the case started. I don't believe that all of the PC makers would be selling machines with Linux on them if the antitrust case had never started. Now that M$ has been given the nod that it can do anything it wants I am expecting companies such as Dell and Compaq to start announcing that they are discontinuing their Linux support due to lack of interest. Hopefully the genie is out of the bottle but I think today it a dark day for computer users everywhere. May you live in interesting times.