Hugh Aguilar <hughaguila...@yahoo.com> writes: > On Aug 24, 5:16 pm, Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote: >> Anyway, as someone else once said, studying a subject like CS isn't done >> by reading. It's done by writing out answers to problem after problem. >> Unless you've been doing that, you haven't been studying. > > What about using what I learned to write programs that work? Does that > count for anything?
Of course it does; but who's going to verify your program? > If I don't have a professor to pat me on the back, will my programs > stop working? That sounds more like magic than technology. I am sure you know what Paul means. As for patting on the back: you must make a hell of an effort to get that. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
