>It means the course wasn't about programming. Maybe it was misnamed or maybe you approximate its real title.
Oops, my mistake. I took you for a serious poster, not a troll.
The class I took at MIT (SICP) and the textbook that was used are world-famous, and it was certainly a programming class.
As to having "never written any widely used software": Among other things, I wrote the software that was used to configure a NASA space telescope (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer), from which about 1,000 peer-reviewed astronomy papers were published. I've worked on brain surgery software (3D Slicer) and now I work on software used for doing RNA Interference-based cancer research.
But I guess you've made your point: All that is just "Computer Science" noodling, not real programming. So, sure don't listen to what I say.
Oops, my mistake. I took you for a serious poster, not a troll.
The class I took at MIT (SICP) and the textbook that was used are world-famous, and it was certainly a programming class.
As to having "never written any widely used software": Among other things, I wrote the software that was used to configure a NASA space telescope (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer), from which about 1,000 peer-reviewed astronomy papers were published. I've worked on brain surgery software (3D Slicer) and now I work on software used for doing RNA Interference-based cancer research.
But I guess you've made your point: All that is just "Computer Science" noodling, not real programming. So, sure don't listen to what I say.