Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Then I graduated and joined the workforce. Since then, I have learned >> a thing or two, but I learned more during my first year in college >> than I have during the 25 since I left. > > Interesting. I'm not surprised that you can learn more in college than > in the years *prior* to it (if you were just dabbling), but I would > have expected that you learn more actually on the job. Are you > seriously saying that you've been 25 years in the workforce and not > learned anything new?
Let's see. What I have learned on the job is projects and processes (even though college tried to give a taste of those, as well). Then, I have gathered some encyclopedic knowledge about programming languages, libraries, frameworks and operating systems. Finally, I have developed routine. But true eye-openers took place in college: data structures, algorithms, complexity theory, parsing and compiling, recursion, object-oriented programming, logic programming, functional programming, distributed systems, cryptography, logic and formalisms, mathematical rigor etc. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
