RE: What's been the most valuable course you have taken?

[Matthew Horn <mhorn -at- macromedia -dot- com>]

+1 on high school typing class as being important to me. In the early days it landed me data entry jobs, then later office temp work, which all innevitably led me to a career in computers.

After that, it would have to be my classes on World War 2. And then Art History. Ooooh, then Jewelry Making. And Myth & Culture!

>>Also, is there any obvious preference for knowledge gained from a course as 
>>opposed to knowledge gained from self-study?

I believe that professional-level classes often fall waaaaaay short of their objectives and merely serve to provide professionals with vacation time. I have never learned as much in a $3000 course than I have out of a $30 book. Different strokes, I guess.

-m
-str
-macr


-----Original Message-----
Bruce Byfield [mailto:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com] wrote:
Definitely my high school typing class. I was bored silly in the second 
half of the class, but if I had known that my living was going to be 
dependent on typing, then I would have signed up next year, too.

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