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Jimmy the Squid:
Yeah I pretty much feel that way. I am now trying to get into this post-grad course for the third year running. I didn't get in the first year because I didn't have the marks, I didn't get in the second year because I was told the wrong closing date for the applications and if I don't get in this year then I'm just going to try and get a job in a book shop, do a business course at TAFE (kind of like a community college kind of thing I guess but they do apprenticeships and stuff as well) and open up a comic shop maybe?
Try speaking to the other professors that you know, see what you can drum up. No reason to stop trying until you've exhausted all your options (or you stop caring, either one).
BlakeJustBlake:
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 15 Oct 2009, 09:27 ---Man, that's not true at all. Maybe not where you studied, but here I've had pretty intensive courses on algorithms, all the maths you mentioned, and computer theory in general as opposed to 'just learning the API'. I'm pretty good friends with some of the maths students here, and they've been shocked by the amounts of maths we have to do.
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ok, what I was trying to say is that if you just want to be a software developer then all you need to learn is how to use APIs. your job will probably not involve some intense tree counting algorithm that you learned in your algorithms and data structures class.
What I'm saying is that if you're really interested in things like tree counting algorithms and the actual computer science bit of it, then really math is a more direct way to it and, as far as I've experienced, has given me more to build off of to make my own algorithms better.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: BlakeJustBlake on 16 Oct 2009, 01:40 ---if you just want to be a software developer then all you need to learn is how to use APIs.
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This also explains why so much software these days is complete crap. Good programming requires understanding, guys!
And now Tommy's requirement, in an appropriately explanatory form:
Barmymoo:
Did you just happen to have that lying around in your computer, on the off-chance that it might come in handy?
Gemmwah:
If the answer is no I will be thoroughly disappointed.
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