Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer From : Roedy Green Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 11:14 am On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:52:02 GMT, Patricia Shanahan wrote or quoted : >I have objective evidence to support my position. I got a 3rd. class >honours degree in mathematics, for courses I took between the ages of 18 >and 21, in the late 1960's, when digital cameras did not exist. I have a >4.0 GPA for computer science Ph.D. classes, including Theory of >Computation and Algorithm Design, taken in my 50's, but with a digital >camera. Mathematical ability is more likely to decrease between the late >teens and early 50's, not increase drastically. Another factor is the distractions of the 50s are not nearly so distracting as the distractions of the teens and 20s. I find myself fastasising about taking all my old courses over, and this time really working to understand every last point, rather than looking on it as a chore. It drives me nuts seeing people posting "do my homework for me" "help me cheat on this term paper". These people don't seem to get it this is your one big chance is life to spend your full time learning. Oddly some of the stuff I learned in university I did not properly understand till much later. It was not that I studied books, just thought about it over the years. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. .