The World's Upgrade Pace

I can relate to how Chia-Ling feels, and after reading her post, I recognized how she felt immediatly and I could understand. The world "upgrading" so rapidly can especially be felt in the IT field . Every time you learn something, and are comfortable enough with it to say that you "mastered" it, you have to start learning something else --and this usually happens even before you think you've "mastered" it. I experienced this pretty often before I went back to school for the Comp Sci degree. It used to be fun for me when I was younger but after a while it really became annoying and tedious.

Now though, I haven't been paying much attention to all the new things that have been coming out --even if I really tried to, I'd probably still miss something at the rate things are being tossed out of product launch. I remember this old programmer at my old job who helped someone with their program, and fixed a problem that someone had been working on for quite a while. The thing that had me intrigued was that the guy didn't know Java (the language the code was written in). He was so good at the underlying principles and mathematical concepts that he could read the code and identify the bug. After I seen that years ago, I never stressed myself to learn ever detail of "X" language; and after coming to this school I really understand what I should focus on.