1st year university ? and you are worrying this much about your career and the rest of
your life?
RELAX!!!
Here's my life story for comparison -
Started out in bio/pre med -
switched to Geology, got through 75% of the curriculum and ran out of money.
Went to (cheap) Community College for Culinary Arts ("You may call me 'Chef'").
After finding no money in Food prep joined the US Navy as a Nuclear Technician.
Medical discharge from the Navy - nearly blinded in one eye in a mugging.
After that I am chemical technician at a Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Site exploring
vitrification
technologies. Going to university nights , with my eye on Environmental Law.
Laboratory robotics spark my interest in computers, I change my major to CS. Develop
an in house
LIMS ( a speciallized Lab Database system) at the aforementioned lab. Finally get a
degree (whew!)
All this before I'm thirty.
Since then I've been a System Administrator, Database Adminstrator, Middleware manager
and
developed solutions ranging from AI to Factory Automation to satellite control to cable
broadcasting transmission scheduling to a Sales Force Automation dot-com (RIP)back to
LIMS (at
which I am currently hacking away. I've used everything from Basic to PL/SQL (Oracle's
builtin
language ) to C, C++, Perl and Java !
What have I learned from this sojourn ?
1) Learn to solve problems, concentrating on one aspect of your career or a problem
makes a much
sense as a carpenter knowing only how to hammer nails.
2) You will probably end up miles away from where you intend on heading.
3) It's not what you learn now - University is for learning how to learn,
*independently*.
--- Tim Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nope I am not in the 9th grade. I am just starting 1st year
> university/college.
>
> And I am writing a number of emails because I am replying to each of the
> emails that I received. And I thought that would be the polite thing to do.
> As people have the taken the time, effort and interest to respond to me,
> then I should have at least the decency to reply.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Gent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:48 AM
> Subject: [jdjlist] RE: is this the sort of code you deal with "in the real
> world" ?
>
>
> > Agreed.
> >
> > However, I don't think Tim IS a developer. If I understood the thread
> > correctly, he's a student, young at that, who is contemplating java
> > programming(development) as a career path?
> >
> > Somewhere in the thread I thought I read that he was in the 9th grade.
> IMO,
> > At that age the question shouldn't be about what programming language to
> > use. Focus should be on what basic skill sets do I enjoy and/or have some
> > proficiency towards. Your comment about whether he should be a devloper
> or
> > not was, IMHO, spot-on.
> >
> > As I mentioned in an earlier post, PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS are most
> > important. Once you've disected the problem into implementable pieces the
> > coding generally follows trivially. Obviously, not all PROGRAMS are
> simple.
> > But it is my contention that the actual coding is not the difficult part.
> > Analyzing the problem and deciding upon a tactical approach to the
> solution
> > is, most times, 90% of the effort.
> >
> > It appears to me that Tim's statement "I don't know how to solve the
> > problem!" is NOT the same thing as "I don't know how to code the
> solution."
> >
> > My .02.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:16 AM
> > To: JDJList
> > Subject: [jdjlist] RE: is this the sort of code you deal with "in the
> > real world" ?
> >
> >
> >
> > ||| IS this the sort of code you deal with in the real world ?
> > |||
> > ||| If so, then my deepest fears really are true -- that java
> > ||| in the real world
> > ||| may be a little too difficult for me to handle.
> > |||
> > ||| And that's really concerning.
> >
> > Tim ... are you kidding? No seriously ... i am not joking with you here,
> i
> > am deeply concerned.
> >
> > This code is *NOT* complicated ... and please someone correct me if i am
> > wrong. I looked through it again just to make sure, but there is nothing
> > there that should concern any java developer.
> >
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