Universities

Recently I was invited to be an adviser for the Computer Science department at our local university. The program is up for its 6 year certification renewal. They invited a several people from local companies who have support them to be on the advisory committee. We had a luncheon with the members of the accreditation committee today.

I must admit that I find this ironic as my only academic degree is a AAS from the Community College of the Air Force. However I was the natural choice to represent my company. A few years ago we donated 6 robots to the university. Three of the professors attended a training class to learn how to program the robots. These were not the first or last students I've had with PHDs.

If you are interested in programming for a living, be prepared to be a life long learner. You might have started programming with FORTRAN, moved to C, Switch to PASCAL, learn JAVA, and be working with C# today.