Re:America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree
by bbgm on Monday October 06, 2008 @06:04PM
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To offer the contrarian view, I know many who've changed careers and explored alternative paths because they had a sound conceptual understanding. Yes, you can't just be theoretical, but I'd argue that you go a lot further when you know why you are using Excel in the first place and what you want to achieve with it.
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Re:America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree
by vaksel on Monday October 06, 2008 @06:41PM
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well thats the thing in most cases the teachers will talk about the concepts without really touching on how to apply them in real life. So sure you might know what an integer is and know what that does in all languages, but that won't help you program competently
Re:America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree
by bbgm on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @12:37AM
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No it won't but if you don't know what an integer is, how are you going to program simple math? You have to understand the basics. Programming is implementation, and of course, must be taught well to be mastered, but it becomes a whole lot easier if you understand what you're trying to program. It's not the best analogy in the world, but hopefully makes some sense