I think I may be the only person on the IT staff who isn't a developer with a CS degree. I'm certainly the only one with an MS in CS.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2005 7:22:08 am PST #4536 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 7:24:31 am PST #4537 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Shrift -- you're in sysadmin? And Tom -- what's your job description?
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2005 7:25:08 am PST #4538 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Most of what I do is programming database stuff. I have no CS degree. I've had two programming courses: BASIC in high school, and Fortran in college.
Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2005 7:25:12 am PST #4539 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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Kalshane - Feb 07, 2005 7:25:37 am PST #4540 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
PC support. Every once in awhile we'll get a new program in that is specific to a department rather than hospital-wide (and thus not something supported by the Sys Admins, though they'll help out if the can) that won't work right and it'd be nice to have a better understanding of how software works and how to "fix" it, but for my normal day to day job it doesn't matter.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2005 7:26:00 am PST #4541 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But there are times I wish I had a CS degree....
bon bon - Feb 07, 2005 7:27:18 am PST #4542 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
All I can say is that law schools have equal numbers of men and women because of the notoriously family-friendly working conditions of papa law.
Kalshane - Feb 07, 2005 7:27:21 am PST #4543 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
But there are times I wish I had a CS degree....
Same here. Though it'd mostly be something to point at and go "See this, pay me more."
Betsy HP - Feb 07, 2005 7:29:01 am PST #4544 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I mean, I can't imagine starting a Computer Science degree without any programming experience.
I can. You show up at college from a high school with no programming courses.
It's like the women who show up at engineering school with the required math and science background but no tinkering experience. I knew a husband/wife pair of engineers; she didn't do as well on class projects as he did because he was more used to handling a soldering iron.
I used to be really peeved at competing with the guys with lots of programming experience until I considered all the reading experience I had, all the reading I did for pleasure, and how young I'd started.
College isn't a standing start; lots of people show up Freshman year with a lap ahead on the track.
P.M. Marc - Feb 07, 2005 7:34:04 am PST #4545 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
All my post-high school CS studies were in AI theory, no programming involved, and nope, no CS degree here. My job positions are basically Tech Monkey types, where a wide base of knowledge is a good thing, because you're mostly the finger for whatever hole springs in the dike.
(I'd have had to go for another year for a dual BA/BS, and that would have been costly, and still wouldn't have given me much in the way of programming.)