[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Dennis Boone]

 > > As an example, I was taught about linked lists.  I wasn't taught about
 > > what I needed them for, that came later on the job.  The school taught
 > > the concept, the job taught the need and design.

 > It was funny listening to chatter among the Discrete Math students.
 > "Why are we learning about nodes?  What is this Venn Diagram crap?  Who
 > cares about Linked Lists?  I just want to learn how to be a programmer."

This is why Dave (above) is partly wrong.  Stuff they try to teach you
in the abstract is likely to be "why do we need this?" and won't stick,
especially to typical college age kids.

You need to walk out with a handle on what it is, and how you use it,
and the general class of problems you're going to hit with it.  If you
get some clue of how to read documentation and where to look for answers
and how to take problems apart in the general sense, and a toolkit full
of stuff like big-O and venn diagrams and linked lists and such, you'll
land on your feet when your boss hands you a deranged-ass task you've
never heard of before.

Or, you can walk out with barely enough skills to ask vague questions on
stackexchange and copypasta incorrect recipes, but get told you
shouldn't do that.

De