From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:30:03 +0200 Message-ID: <86shhgotzo.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86a83x93tl.fsf@zoho.com> <871sp9my5m.fsf@jane> <86wp717e67.fsf@zoho.com> <86poclqx3p.fsf@zoho.com> <87k22s2xyi.fsf@jane> <898c8101-ca4d-48f6-8db1-1fa20b270ac0@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501295458 7720 195.159.176.226 (29 Jul 2017 02:30:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:30:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 04:30:52 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbHWj-0001S6-KD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50907 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbHWn-000321-RE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58299) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbHWM-00031o-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:30:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbHWJ-00025v-Gl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42558 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbHWJ-00023P-8d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbHW7-0008C7-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:30:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:V8WnJapaLkT7tNgNucWT13GcI1Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113905 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> Well, in maths, theory is basically all >> you've got;-). > > In theory, maybe, but not in practice. ;-) One would certainly hope so! I only did the introductory courses in math, probably at a ridiculously low lever for some people in this thread. And true enough, they were 0% practice, just an exam at the end of each course. But I always assumed this would change the higher people got. Perhaps I was wrong? Computer courses were never like that, they had both parts, with the practical parts often being implementing or doing something with a concept, data structure or whatever from the theory part. Sometimes the practical parts were neatly packeted but many times you'd spend hours and days just getting the damn thing to work before you could start "actual" work. Looking back y'all, it is amazing young people could cope with this constant stress and frustration. Straight French Foreign Legion! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573