Re: College kid, looking for advice.

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From: William Morris (news.remove.this.and.the.dots_at_seamlyne.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:11:22 -0600

Don't chafe too much having to take C++ or Java. My CS101 course taught
Pascall, which for the record I've NEVER used, but I learned something more
important in that class than the language.

There's more to programming than slinging code. I've met quite a few coders
who can't program! For a while I was performing all of the technical
interviews for the company I worked for at the time, and I recommended hires
based more on teachability, flexibility, and style than I did for language:
anyone can learn a language, but I hated having to break coders of bad
habits!

 - Wm 

-- 
William Morris
Product Development, Seritas LLC
Kansas City, Missouri
"Jason Daly" <daly_jason@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm a freshman at college as a computer science major.
> I'm not sure it has what I want.  Does anyone know if a major commonly
> exists in web design (focusing in server side languages)?  I want to
> program for the internet, but don't know where to get all of my
> information from to be the most knowledgeable I can be.  Do i find what
> i'm looking for in some class somewhere? if so where do i look?  or do i
> just buy all the asp, php, xml, etc books i can find?  or do I just
> scour over problems and solutions in these forums?
>
> The school i'm at now is teaching C++ and Java, followed by other
> computer courses unrelated specifically to internet, even if I want this
> to be my profession.
> I'm looking at a school of lesser prestige, which does offer some
> courses in web development.
>
> What exactly should I be looking for from my college and my major in
> order to know what I need to know when i get out and want to become a
> web developer for a career?
>
>
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