On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 06:56, Michael Halcrow wrote: > The best tool for the job is not always whatever the lab writeup, or > the TA, recommends. Just be sure to check with the professor first to > make sure it's okay to ``deviate''. :-)
Sometimes it's great to learn new tools to widen your experience base, even if they aren't the "best" tools for that particular job (except probably in cases of production). The educational experience at BYU or any other institution is what YOU make of it. Don't be afraid to learn more than what a course may offer (though checking with the professor first, as Halcrow suggested, is a good idea). In my research lab I was working with a network simulator, whose input scripts were in tcl. I wasn't very proficient in tcl, so for my machine learning class (CS472) I decided to write all my labs in tcl. It was not the "best" tool for just about any of my labs (the neural network was probably 20x slower than something written in C), but I gained proficiency because I made myself learn it. Casey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
