Re: Any research putting c above ada?

[John Apa <japa@DIE_SPAMMER.dasd.honeywell.com>]

Kevin Cline wrote:
> > 
> I'm not recommending that you read textbooks.  I'm thinking of books like
> "Design Patterns", by Gamma et. al, "Peopleware" by DeMarco and somebody,
> or "Debugging the Development Process" by McGuire.
> 
> One book a month is one hour per week.  Probably less time than you spend
> reading and posting to newsgroups.

You must read much faster than anyone I know. I just worked my way
through Jacobson's book. No way to understand it if you spend only 4
hours a month. I'd never get through it. I was lucky and got to do it at
work, took my time and learned it. Not just key words and concepts from
skimming. I could take a book, skim it, go to a meeting, and sound like
an expert (seen people do this); but I wouldn't have accomplished
anything other than making other think I was smarter than I was. My
books all have notes written in the margins, and I try examples and
exercises to solidify the knowledge in my head. It takes much more than
an hour a week to really study the concepts.

This has been a long week and reviewing some of my responses, I may have
been a little hasty. I tend to get spun up quickly about grades and
schools because it is such an arbitrary standard which means practically
0 in the real world. We all know people who are brilliant, some have
high gpas and some low. My first job out of school had little to do with
my gpa. I knew many people in the industry from working to pay for
school. The best thing to get the doors open for interviews is to attend
the local professional society's meetings and get to know people in
industry. We all help friends get jobs, so the more friends we have the
easier it is to get in the door. Of course that is not enough, knowledge
and experience are the most important when it comes to signing the offer
letter.

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