Sounds like a good school.  I do not think my JC experience was a s 
good.


On 2022-08-22 19:13, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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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