From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:37:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:37:30 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:54799 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:37:19 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Riley Williams , Erik Mouw Subject: Re: university studies? Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:42:48 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: peter revill , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080217424800.00440@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 02 August 2001 09:24, Riley Williams wrote: > > Erik [who did "M.Sc. Electrical Engineering"] > > I understand there's somebody on here who did BA Spanish as their > degree... And somebody who did B.Mus. :-) But I also did computer science courses at the same time, and after that graduate CS courses. I really think there is no substitute for university level education here. Yes, there are great hackers who got that way without formal education in the field, but I'll bet that most of them wish they had not missed the opportunity. I firmly believe that Comp Sci by itself is not balanced enough, you need to have deep knowledge of *some* unrelated field to obtain the required perspective needed not only to solve problems, but to know why you want to solve them. Music in particular teaches you about form and balance, and also a deep respect for the need to practice and perfect the low-level skills prerequisite to the flashier achievements we all aspire to. Not to mention helping speed up your typing. -- Daniel