Advice on where and what to study
Micha Feigin
michf at post.tau.ac.il
Fri Dec 3 16:41:29 IST 2010
You could try looking at the open university, but the question is what do you expect to get out of these courses.
University courses I know don't teach you much about actual programming. I would take at least one course about software engineering, preferably both functional and object oriented, including uml and testing methodologies. Also an object oriented course with emphasis on object oriented methodologies and design. These have proven more invaluable to me than actual programing courses. Computer structure and operating systems have also been very good, but you have to read between the lines, as sometimes the interesting part of the syllabus is hiding behind lecturers who are not even aware of it (initial course in lisp in tau for example)
"Dima (Dan) Yasny" <dyasny at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking for some advice on which courses and where to take, in the
>Central area.
>
>What I'm looking at is getting some more formal and proper programming
>background, something around
>Intro to C -> Advanced C -> intro to C++ -> Advanced C++ -> Linux
>specifics maybe...
>
>I tend to mostly work with Python, but I keep running into dead ends
>because I lack proper education more and more recently
>
>I am aware of proper BSc/BA programs, but I'd like to do this in under
>a year overall, and stay away from the extra math/physics/etc courses.
>
>Background - 15 years sysadmin, bash, python, powershell scripting
>Highschool pascal, prolog, magic, assembly etc - long forgotten mostly
>
>So if anyone is aware of a college of institution that provides such
>courses, preferrably as a set up program, I'll be very happy to hear
>about it
>
>
>Cheers,
>D.
>
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