Re: Certification or College degrees?

[Brian <bri () sonicboom org>]

Tis amazing as an engineering major to watch how many students drop as the
calculus gets tougher and tougher..

        Bri

On Thu, 23 May 2002, David Lesher wrote:

> Unnamed Administration sources reported that Brian said:
> > Computer science does enforce critical thinking skills, which are a very
> > necessary part of any successful engineer's toolbox.
>
> Remember that "Learned everything in Kindergarten" book a while back?
>
> Well, a good engineering education teaches you less, but educates
> you more, than you might think.
>
> Specifically, you learn how to know what you [don't] know, and
> how to learn more as needed.
>
> But most pivotal, it hammers a *rigorous, systematic, problem
> solving approach* into you. If you can't grasp & embrace that,
> you'll be gone. As an older student, I watched lots of bright young
> faces, all smarter than YT, trip at that fence and change majors.
> (Me? I could never grok the sole philosophy course I tried...)
>
> Just like no one can ever really write a large program, no one
> can solve a large problem. Just like a soldier dives for a
> foxhole when he hears weapons fire, and THEN thinks; when your
> reflex is "how do I break up {whatever} into parts I can
> handle?" then you're over the hump.
>
> THAT won't be obsolete when Billy introduces Windows 20000, and we
> have 6ESS's & DMS 2500's.
>
>
>
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