> Wow, if you took it upon yourself to learn things like FSA and UTM
> then more power to you.
> Personally, outside college I would have never looked at such things.
That makes no sense.
If you never use a finite state automata... then what good is it?
You've wasted months of your life.
Personally... I invent and learn on the go. I do it on a "need" basis.
If I need to learn or invent something, I do it.
So... in fact I've invented all sorts of things, that the academia
teach, and in fact I implemented cleaner better simpler versions than
they teach, in less time than it would take a student to LEARN it, let
alone code it.
Most of the stuff in the academia can be learnt in 5 minutes per
theory. Like linked lists... or trees.
I've developed a much more RAM and CPU efficient form of tree, for
example, that I use for a dictionary. It's in my ElfDataDictionary
class.
One thing college does not teach, is wisdom.
Instead of teaching you FSA or UTM... they should have been asking you
what is wrong about you as a person that you would not naturally
consider inventing and learning on the go, as I do.
That would be wisdom, and have a greater effect on your performance as
a developer.
>
> Dean Davis
>
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Theodore H. Smith
> <delete at elfdata dot com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I wasn't arguing that. I was arguing that you can learn the
>> theoretical side without university, far quicker, and far better
>> outside.
>
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