RE: [PHP] while-question

At 10:00 AM -0800 11/17/08, bruce wrote:

curious qiestion.... to all on here who dabble in php... how many of you have actully gone to college, taken algorithm courses, microprocessor courses, design/architecture courses, etc.. or is the majority of the work here from people who've grabbed the tools and started programming... ?

Dabbling? I think that making a living from it isn't dabbling, so I may not be qualified to speak for the dabblers. But for me, I was writing code before there were such courses. Later, when I went to college I was taught adventures in keypunching and received several "next to worthless" degrees. I say "next to worthless" only because what they taught really wasn't applicable to real world programming. As for management, clients, and hr types, the degrees mattered, but not for much more than that. In any event, I doubt if any college courses are keeping up with current web technology -- there has always been a lag between what's practiced and what's taught. What I've seen of college web sites, seems to support that claim. If I was taught in college all I needed to know, then what am I doing with these dozens of web books scattered about my office? I probably read a new book every other week. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com