On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 15:35 +0000, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Am 22. Aug, 2022 schwätzte greg zegan via PLUG-discuss so:

> Community college won't get you all the way to CS or EE, but you can get a
> bunch of the non-domain specific classes that way.

You wouldn't believe all I learned at Santa Monica Community College (SMC) in the
1980's. Most important, I learned the program architecture tool of that era,
functional decomposition. At SMC I learned to design both Cobol and Pascal programs
using functional decomposition. And by learning Pascal, I had a leg up learning C,
Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, and pretty much every language that can be used
procedurally.

SMC taught me systems analysis, the art, science and procedure of querying for user
requirements, incorporating them into the design, planning the project, writing the
specs, and implementing them in code. As a freelancer, this gave me a huge
advantage, because I could dig down to what the user/customer REALLY wanted, tell
them whether it was feasable within time/budget constraints, and then deliver the
software. 

I don't know if community colleges are still as good, and I suspect California
community colleges are the best, and SMC is among the best of them, but my
experience tells me that a few courses at a community college can jumpstart your
career.

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