<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <link href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" rel="profile"> <!-- Enable responsiveness on mobile devices--> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title> What does ~rogbeer put here? · That which probably doesn't fit anywhere else on the Internet </title> <!-- CSS --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/~rogbeer/styles.css"> <!-- Icons --> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="/~rogbeer/public/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/~rogbeer/public/favicon.ico"> <!-- RSS --> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="What does ~rogbeer put here?" href="/~rogbeer/atom.xml"> </head> <body> <div class="container content"> <header class="masthead"> <h3 class="masthead-title"> <a href="/~rogbeer/" title="Home">What does ~rogbeer put here?</a> <small>That which probably doesn't fit anywhere else on the Internet</small> </h3> <br /> <blockquote> <p>"Man makes a clever face and talks about being lord on Earth. And at the same time he doesn’t even know where to begin with his own body: he watches sports on television and defends himself saying that everyone else does it too." </p> <p>- <a href="http://antaiji.org/archives/eng/kodo-sawaki-to-you.shtml">Homeless Kodo </a> </p> </blockquote> <br /> <small>| <a href="/~rogbeer/archive">Archive </a> </small> <br /> <small>| <a href="/~rogbeer/atom.xml">RSS Feed </a> </small> <br /> <small>| <a href="/~rogbeer/now">What ~rogbeer is focused on at this point in his life </a> </small> <br /> <small>| <a href="/~rogbeer/rogbeer">What's with the name, ~rogbeer? </a> </small> <br /> <small>| <a href="/~rogbeer/swap">What would people give, for a cassette tape? </a> </small> <br /> </header> <main> <div class="posts"> <article class="post"> <h1 class="post-title"> <a href="/~rogbeer/2018/10/30/drizzling/"> What I learnt in Computer Science </a> </h1> <time datetime="2018-10-30T00:00:00+00:00" class="post-date">30 Oct 2018</time> <p>I dropped out from an undergraduate course in Computer Science (CS, for short).</p> <p>While I was attending CS courses, however, I learnt how to detach myself, or abstract myself, from technological tools, which, as a so-called ‘digital native’ may know, changes ever so frequently.</p> <p>I learnt that if I have a fundamental skill, or what <a href="https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~bleong/">(one of)</a> my lecturer(s) called ‘first principles’, I can solve a given problem, regardless of how seemingly foreign the problem may be.</p> <p>Applying this concept in another context, it could be said that if I know the fundamental skills in social dealings, then regardless of which country, or culture, I find myself in, I can thrive (and not merely survive - but that’s a topic for another time, perhaps).</p> <p>That’s powerful. That’s empowering. (As the saying goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him once. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a life-time.”) And it gives one confidence. It certainly gives me confidence.</p> <p>But of course I credit all these lessons and benefits, or perks, to <a href="http://phtan.github.io/religion.html">my god</a> and his kindness and goodness.</p> </article> </div> <div class="pagination"> <a class="pagination-item older" href="/~rogbeer/page3">Older</a> <a class="pagination-item newer" href="/~rogbeer/">Newer</a> </div> </main> <footer class="footer"> <small> © <a href="https://phtan.github.io/">Tony Chen</a>, <time datetime="2018-11-12T04:36:09+00:00">2018</time>. All rights reserved. Built on <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a>, using the theme <a href="http://getpoole.com/">Poole</a>. Hosted on <a href="http://tilde.town/">tilde.town</a> </small> </footer> </div> </body> </html>