[48154] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Certification or College degrees?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu May 23 08:30:09 2002
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 04:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <20020522165817.N6380-100000@mail.sonicboom.org> from "Brian" at May 22, 2002 04:59:20 PM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that Brian said:
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> Computer science does enforce critical thinking skills, which are a very
> necessary part of any successful engineer's toolbox.
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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.
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