Well that is one way of getting into engineering... There is another one... school In school you learn a couple of pretty important skills for engineering.. Math for instance is pretty necessary. Its all about learning the language of what field you are going into.. part of the language of engineering is math and without understanding that language you might have a bit o problems.
Same goes for programming, if you dont learn the language but have a babelfish that translates for you all the time you will end up with a knowledge that you babelfish will translate for you so you dont need to program. Yet to some extend you are right programming from the bottom up can be a daunting task for some people and they will need help understanding variables and the like. But we shouldnt glaze it over completely. Problem with some IDEs is that they dont show you what you are doing... oh yeah and might tie you into one product;-P
I learn languages by ear, I found out that I cant learn them by rules. I learned english by myself infront of the TV as a kid. Im danish and we are taught two languages in school german and english. I suck at german because from the start I learned it by them trying to teach me the rules of the language before teaching me the language. English Im pretty good at because I learned it by listening. Things might have been different had I lived in the southern part of Denmark where people watch alot of german TV. Same goes for programming I learned programming by looking and trying to understand what others "were" saying in their code. I believe our ways of learning are different from person to person some need the rules others need the language first... Im the language person you might be the rules person:-) Theres probably more way than these but those are the two I have come to see through my own experiance in school and other places.
I think I might have moved away from the topic at hand but o well:-)
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Well that is one way of getting into engineering... ... school
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:-) Theres probably more way than these but those are the two I have come to see through my own experiance in school and other places.
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There is another one
In school you learn a couple of pretty important skills for engineering.. Math for instance is pretty necessary.
Its all about learning the language of what field you are going into.. part of the language of engineering is math and without understanding that language you might have a bit o problems.
Same goes for programming, if you dont learn the language but have a babelfish that translates for you all the time you will end up with a knowledge that you babelfish will translate for you so you dont need to program.
Yet to some extend you are right programming from the bottom up can be a daunting task for some people and they will need help understanding variables and the like. But we shouldnt glaze it over completely. Problem with some IDEs is that they dont show you what you are doing... oh yeah and might tie you into one product
I learn languages by ear, I found out that I cant learn them by rules. I learned english by myself infront of the TV as a kid. Im danish and we are taught two languages in school german and english. I suck at german because from the start I learned it by them trying to teach me the rules of the language before teaching me the language. English Im pretty good at because I learned it by listening. Things might have been different had I lived in the southern part of Denmark where people watch alot of german TV.
Same goes for programming I learned programming by looking and trying to understand what others "were" saying in their code. I believe our ways of learning are different from person to person some need the rules others need the language first... Im the language person you might be the rules person
I think I might have moved away from the topic at hand but o well
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