From: Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: university studies?
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:12:19 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108011412.PAA06491@mauve.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010801134647.D662@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> from "Erik Mouw" at Aug 01, 2001 01:46:47 PM
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:06:16AM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> > Personally, I did "B.Sc. Computer Studies", but I suspect the actual
> > course title is irrelevant, and it's the modules you do in the course
> > that matter. Here's what I would regard as important:
> >
> > 1. A thorough knowledge of programming in C. Knowledge of C++
> > will help.
> >
> > 2. Experience of programming hardware will definitely help.
> >
> > 3. The ability to think logically is a definite advantage, and
> > tends to result in 90%+ of your programs working first time.
> >
> > Additions, anybody?
>
> A couple of good books also helps:
Maths.
Can help lots in the generation of algorithms, for example
proving that one faster way of doing something is identical
to a slower way.
Knowing the maths behind the algorithms can lead to ways to
speed things up by orders of magnitude in some cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-01 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-01 5:22 peter revill
2001-08-01 7:06 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-01 11:46 ` Erik Mouw
2001-08-01 14:12 ` Ian Stirling [this message]
2001-08-01 19:31 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
2001-08-02 7:24 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-02 8:48 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-02 11:36 ` Muzaffer Ozakca
2001-08-02 15:45 ` Crutcher Dunnavant
2001-08-02 17:12 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-02 15:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-02 18:13 ` Brad Stewart
2001-08-02 18:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-02 18:46 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-08-03 10:05 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-08-03 10:51 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-03 13:02 ` asmith
2001-08-03 14:32 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-05 11:32 ` asmith
2001-08-05 14:09 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-05 14:19 ` (OT) " Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 10:05 ` Sean Hunter
2001-08-02 3:39 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 8:26 ` David Weinehall
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