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. > > > > -- > A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX > Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 > is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 >