How I came to find Linux

Re:How I came to find Linux by pjmlp on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @01:47PM (#10080822)

That wouldn't work at my university, unless it changed a lot on the last 20 years.

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Re:How I came to find Linux by paublyrne on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @05:05AM (#10084376)

A lot of people fail CS, but I have friends who go through without having a real passion for it, and just doing enough to get through it.

And in the workplace there are plenty of people who know enough to do their programming jobs, but don't have a real interest in it, don't code at home, etc.

People with passion for it will shine eventually, whatever road they take.

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Re:How I came to find Linux by walshemj on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @03:43PM (#10081660)

Must be a minority then you know they built the raspberry pi to try and get kids to have some programing experience at GCSE and A level (15-18)

This was so they didn't have to teach the basics on CS and EE courses

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Re:How I came to find Linux by pjmlp on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @03:58PM (#10081746)

You are talking about UK.

On my Portuguese university, we got to code in standard Pascal, C, C++, Prolog, Smalltalk, Caml Light, PL/SQL, 80x86 and MIPS Assembly, Java.

Many of the lectures were composed by exam + mini-project.

Anyone that made it without much coding was getting a ride in workgroups, on single projects it was either code or fail.

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