On 11/03/2015 04:23 PM, Walt Haas wrote:
> Regardless of what formal education you get, our field changes so fast
> that every five years you will have to retrain yourself for whatever is new.
>
> That being said, I think if you are going to get a degree, you should
> focus on the basics - things like theory that won't change in five
> years.  Teaching languages (Java is still the current favorite I think)
> change at regular intervals, but the basics of designing good programs
> are more enduring.  Understanding the difference between procedural,
> object and functional programming is of fundamental importance.
>
>

I agree about the theory.  I think project management is some of the 
most important stuff I learned at school.

While we're on this topic three thing I wish I had started using sooner:

regex
git
testing

Kyle

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