Re:Do You Really Have to Go to College?
by zanny on Monday March 11, 2013 @03:28AM
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Many colleges in the upper level electives will let you use whatever language you want, but if the prof doesn't know it don't expect help. I was using Scala in my game programming class instead of Java like everyone else (since the projects were targeting the JVM, I couldn't assume any other environment be present, and I had done plenty of C/C++ elsewhere and wanted to try something new). I got an A, and the prof only once read my code and said "I really need to read some documentation on Scala!"
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Re:Do You Really Have to Go to College?
by dinkumthinkum on Monday March 11, 2013 @03:47AM
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Students, and others in this industry in general, tend to make such a big deal about using the latest hyped languages. I think too much so. It's "impressive," I guess. Having a foundation in computer science means you understand that most of the concepts in these "new" languages have been well worn since the 60s, just packaged in new ways, incremental improvements. There's also something to be said, in my view, for Turing completeness. This is not anything about your story, just a related tangent.
I love the serious response to a comment posed as a joke due to the poor capitalization of the original title. So much so that I feel on the fence about even pointing it out.
Re:Do You Really Have to Go to College?
by dinkumthinkum on Monday March 11, 2013 @10:35PM
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Well, nerds can find interesting discussions in almost anything. :)