Re: How to get into Scientific Programming

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Baruch Vainas) wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Quinn) wrote in message
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>>[snip some issues already discussed in my reply to William]
>> 
>>> In this context, the Encyclopaedia Britannica helpfully points out that 
>>> the Wright brothers were the only members of the Wright family who did 
>>> not attend college!
>>
>>Ergo - if you want to be creative like Wright brothers, do not attend
>> college???
>>Beware of fool's paradise.
>
>Just pointing out that if you want to make planes, academic study of 
>fluid dynamics is not necessarily the way to go.  Or not to excess - an 
>engineering degree would be a good start, but if you want to make planes 
>rather than talk about them, you'll find little scope at university.

If you want to make planes, you might have trouble getting hired without a 
university degree.  Aeroplane designs have become a little more involved 
since the Wright Brothers flew.  A lot of fields change like that in a 
hundred years after it was pioneered.  Think two guys working out of a 
garage could still make a large corporation out of inventing and selling a 
personal computer?

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