Python Learning

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at 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.
>

So if you were to choose between two potential hires, one who had 25
years' experience and the other had nothing but college, which would
you choose? Are you worth virtually the same salary now as you were
worth straight out of college?

ChrisA