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Old 10-05-09, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by digioz View Post
I actually was a self taught programmer initially, who went back to school to get a computer degree. Although at times it did feel like I knew more then the teacher, what school did for me was to fill in all the gaps in my knowledge and give me a systematic approach to programming in any language. So in a way you could say it taught me how to learn other programming languages faster.

Pete
Yes, I agree with that. What you learn in school is how to be systematic. School will give you experience and knowledge on how to understand a programming language without going around and all over the place.

Eric Deko

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