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From: MCL9337@TAMVENUS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: School...
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Date: 28 Mar 88 18:55:00 GMT
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I admit the response to the "That's what I thought school was for" was a little
broad in scope.

The first thought I got on this matter was not like what that person said!
I believe school was VERY useful.  The problem with your statement is that
the kind of things you learn in computer class are NOTHING like what you learn
by hacking, etc.  The point the person was trying to make about the software
crackers was that they will learn very machine specific things.  More
complicated things like DOS formats and machine language are NOT usually taught
in school!  The best you get is a wimpy BASIC course or something.  I had to
take a BASIC course my Senior year in high school.  It was a big laugh!  I had
taught myself BASIC two years before that!  I learned ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from
that class.

School (not including college) can not come close to teaching you anything about
the more complicated aspects of computing!

-=sb=-

mcl9337@tamvenus.bitnet