On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:58:28 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 11:59:14 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:12:10 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 08/11/2020 01:17 AM, T wrote:
What my degree(s) proves is that I am willing to take on
a long term project that involves considerable personal
hardship (skool sucks) and see it though to the end.
That is exactly what Bowman is looking for.

Oh ya, I can point out some exceptions too, but
they are exceptions. Sorry, but Bowman knows
what he is doing. And he most probably does not
have the time or energy to dick around trying to find
who the exceptions are.

It's a slightly different situation but several of the programmers I've
hired dropped out of college. I did the same thing in graduate school.
I'd been working for several years and was going nights but I realized
what was being taught had nothing to do with what I was doing days. I've
had better luck with short seminars that related to what I was doing
than a formal education program.

Even when I interview people that have graduated from the local diploma
mill with a CS degree I feel like they should demand their money back.


One of the colleges in Maryland was a customer of mine and their
computer science program seemed to be lagging the industry by about
10-15 years.

You remind me of my fellow students. One took a networking class and
expected to be shown how to hook up routers and stuff. Imagine his
disappointment when all they talked about was packets, collisions, etc.
I told him he was getting an education in Computer Science, not training
in IT.

Cindy Hamilton

That was the problem at this place. They were talking about Boolean
Algebra and these guys wanted to learn coding and systems analysis.
A few guys who were following me around were fascinated when I
introduced them to that big rack of books that was in every computer
room with the actual system references, not some theoretical exercise.
I sent one guy home with a spare copy of "I/O and system macros" I had
in the car and he was thrilled. That one book probably has more
information about how (S/360) DOS works than just about anything else
you could read.