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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:05:42 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To:        tyler@tysdomain.com
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Johan Bucht <jbucht@gmail.com>, by <free7by@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: Something related to C and C++
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Hi,

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:49:37 -0400
"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> wrote:

> On 3/17/2014 9:03 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:54:50 +0800
> > by <free7by@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > A question to the others. When I see these comments here, I wonder
> > how bad university education got over time. Is this here typical
> > now or just an exception.
> 
> Universities can be pretty rough. I took a c++ course a couple years
> ago and it was rough since I'd taught myself a long time back. The
> teacher would talk about how specific ides like to "eat" files ending
> in .txt, etc. The best programmers are those who eat, breathe and
> dream in c++ and really want to learn: even with the best education,
> your motivation and ability to learn and explore is what makes you a
> good programmer IMO. A bad university might be a problem, but it's
> not the end of the world, by no means.

it might be the end of the world. Not tomorrow but later. Some time
ago, it was normal that some 20% of a cohort finished education with a
master's. I have read now that some countries are trying to get this
number to 40%.

Did the people get more capable or did the education got more lousy?

Erich

PS: we are really off the course when it comes to the idea behind this
list.



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