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Old 05-12-2003, 08:47 PM  
vending_machine
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Originally posted by pimpshost
I went for 4 years, it sucks. The industry evolves way to quick, to go to a school where the classes where developed 3 years ago. When you are done, you learned the past.

I would take short classes or seminars on current topics and put it to work. That's what I did and it worked out pretty good.
Sure, it's good to keep up with the industry, but in the end it doesn't really matter. You just have to learn the principles. Being a comp sci major, I have learned 100 times the amount I learned in College after I graduated BECAUSE I was taught good basic principles about computing and the history of programming (etc).

All of it may not make sense when you're in the class room, but most if not all will come to you one day. And then you will say to yourself: Aha, so that's why ...
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