On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Hans,
Sunday, January 27, 2008, 5:02:57 PM, you wrote:
This reminds me, I worked at a Dutch telecomm software production company for a short while in 1999 and they had two Russian software engineers there, one from St. Petersburg and one from Wladiwostok, both female and under 25 years of age. They programmed in C and were highly respected by their managers and colleagues! So, there are at least counterexamples :-)
no. you should asked them HOW they learned programming and i'm pretty sure (knowing too much about our universities and institutes) that they were just a self-learned - like myself. generally speaking, our higher education now just starting to teach students "new" Java technologies - you can imagine how old is knowledge they get there. actually, all the good russian programmers i ever seen are self-learned
Many things I need today for math and computer science I have acquired in an auto-didactic way. These are usually the things I can remember most easily. Isn't it a good education system if it allows, or supports, or encourages or forces you to learn this way? :-)