Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!asuvax!mot!al From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) Newsgroups: net.cse,net.college Subject: Re: Computer requirements to enter college and hackers as good programmers Message-ID: <70@mot.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 19:50:59 EST Article-I.D.: mot.70 Posted: Fri Jan 4 19:50:59 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 02:59:43 EST References: <738@ames.UUCP> Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.cse:303 net.college:615 eugene miya writes > From the receiving end after college, I would again like to stress the > importance of communication skills for anyone entering college. My > verbal skills were hardly the best when entering college, but when I > entered the working world, most of the people writing memos and papers > around me gave me complements for my 'good writing.' Without question, > at the different industrial and research establishments, the average > person needs better communication skills. The need for better verbal skills can't be emphasized strongly enough. When I was a professor, more than one undergraduate told me that he decided to go into engineering because he "didn't like to write". It's hard to imagine a worse misconception of what an engineer/scientist does and what skills he needs. This is probably due in part to assembly line engineering courses which require only short answers to problems; an engineering student can graduate with negligible writing skills. He is in for a rude shock in his first job, though. -------------------------------- Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A {allegra | ihnp4 } ! sftig ! mot ! al {seismo | ihnp4 } ! ut-sally ! oakhill ! mot ! al -------------------------------- Yes, but can you program the Towers of Hanoi in it?