On Feb 29, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
>> I never said I needed a degree to understand this stuff.
>
> You implied it though?
No I did not. I didn't understand this stuff because I didn't have
experience with it. I said that if I had taken a CS course, maybe I'd
have experience with it. This does not mean or imply that
a) I need the CS course to understand it
b) The CS course would teach it
This is my exact quote: "This is likely due to never actually taken a
real computer science course, but nevertheless, I need some help."
>> I didn't know this and maybe that's because I
>> never took a CS course.
>
> Neither did I. So your guess was wrong. I think I made the most
> elegant solution...
My comment was simple:
- If I had taken a CS course, it would be more likely that I'd have
experience with this particular subject -
You are way over-generalizing to make yourself sound superior to
everybody else. Congrats, you know it without the course, along with
thousands of other people who also managed to learn this without the
course. And you know what? Now I know as well.
--
Thom McGrath
The ZAZ Studios
<http://www.thezaz.com/> AIM: thezazstudios
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