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3 total messages Started by Daz3 Sat, 08 Jul 2000 00:00

#603

Author: Daz3
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 00:00

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Hi everyone,
    My name is Daz and I am a Bach of IT student in Qld doing a JAVA course
this semester. I have just subscribed to this group. Hopefully I will be
able to contribute something towards the group towards the end of the
semester but will probably just be "lurking" in the background until then.

rgds
Daz

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#604

Author: Paul Murray
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 00:00

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"Daz3" <daz3@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:39669f55$0$11184$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...

Just don't ask people to do your homework for you. I hate that - it brings
the whole profession down when people carry around fake degrees that they
did not earn.

Some advice?

<ADVICE>
Degrees are (almost) meaningless, because everyone knows that you can get
one without much skill in your subject area. Being skilled at doing an
academic course (getting assignments in on time, flatteringly regurgitating
the lecturer's opinions), does not make a person a skilled programmer,
engineer, artist, physician etc. The thing that matters most is experience.
A qualification alone will only get you an entry-level position.

For this reason, paradoxically, the the only worthwhile thing you can get
out of your course is an education. The paper is almost worthless, but the
stuff you can learn if you really want to learn (and not just pass the
course) can be priceless. I have always regretted not being able to finish
my degree. I make my living programming, sure, but there are gaps in my
knowlege. I have only picked up a) what I needed to know and b) what I found
interesting.

So scaping by and getting "help" on your assignments (to the extent you
don't understand the answers) is a waste of time.
</ADVICE>

Most of the people who ask for exam answers have poor english - either asian
or ignorant american, mainly. <Ducking & Running>

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Re: New to group

#588

Author: Grant
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:00

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You do need a degree to understand the whole computer, not just one
aspect. In the long run everything is related. Spelling could be one
subject that needs to be taken from what I have seen so far.

Grant

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