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From: mw22+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Alan Wertheim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: School revisited...
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Date: 13 Apr 88 20:47:32 GMT
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Re: "Granted these courses are enough for some people, but not for those who
want to 'know it all and more.'"

No way.

Here are a few trivial things that I've learned in college that I probably
would not have been able to pick up by buying a book and sitting down in front
of my Apple:

1.) Assembly language with true parameter passign and recursion
2.) How to write a compiler
3.) How to prove that a program will terminate; how to prove that a program is
correct

And in semesters to come:

1.) How to write timing-critical code like RWTS
2.) How to write an operating system
3.) How to manage more than one process running on the same machine at the same
time

OK.  So you won't learn that CALL 42350 will catalog a disk under DOS 3.3 in
college, but I would think that anyone with a Computer Science or Computer
Engineering degree has more useful knowledge and experience with computers than
any hacker.


Michael Wertheim
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

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