On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Hans, > > Sunday, January 27, 2008, 5:02:57 PM, you wrote: > > > This reminds me, I worked at a Dutch telecomm software production > > company for a short while in 1999 and they had two Russian software > > engineers there, one from St. Petersburg and one from Wladiwostok, both > > female and under 25 years of age. They programmed in C and were highly > > respected by their managers and colleagues! So, there are at least > > counterexamples :-) > > no. you should asked them HOW they learned programming and i'm pretty > sure (knowing too much about our universities and institutes) that > they were just a self-learned - like myself. generally speaking, our > higher education now just starting to teach students "new" Java > technologies - you can imagine how old is knowledge they get there. > actually, all the good russian programmers i ever seen are > self-learned
Many things I need today for math and computer science I have acquired in an auto-didactic way. These are usually the things I can remember most easily. Isn't it a good education system if it allows, or supports, or encourages or forces you to learn this way? :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe