[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/04/12 Thu PM 02:25:36 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

>On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
>der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
>
>> >> It scares me that you can graduate now with a comp-sci degree,
>> >> without ever having done any system programming.
>> > You can graduate with a BS in Computer Science from a *reputable*
>> > school nowadays, having *never programmed a single line of code*.
>> 
>> Nothing wrong with that.  Computer science has about as much to do with
>> programming as knowing the chemistry of combustion does with building
>> an internal combustion engine.
>
>I disagree with that pretty strongly.
>
>Even the most pure science still requires pragmatic examples to be useful.
>
>Even theorists do experiments.

Que Richard Feynmann and the famous O-Ring experiment - all it took was a 
glass of water, some ice, and an O-Ring like the ones installed ont he sace 
shuttle "Challenger" and he figured out what the problem was. We was, IIRC, a 
"theoretical physicist" (and an amateur "throat singer" ;^)...

Lionel