Thomas,<br><br>Here's a good place to start, although I'm not sure how up to date it is:<br><a href="http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_education">http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_education</a><br><br>
I too am interested in an FP-related, higher education in California. Could you please send another post with whatever information you find?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Greg<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Thomas Hartman</b> <<a href="mailto:tphyahoo@gmail.com">tphyahoo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
haskellers, I'm contemplating returning to school after a decade as a<br>worker bee, and almost that long as a worker bee doing computer<br>consulting / miscelaneous tech stuff.<br><br>Ideally I'd like to get a masters, but I don't know if that's feasible
<br>this late in the game. If it's not, I might settle for a lesser degree<br>and worry about the masters later.<br><br>Part of my desire to return to school is that after encountering<br>functional programming over the past year or so (first through lisp,
<br>then haskell), I've found something that I'm really interested in, but<br>that it feels the amount of learning I can do around a job just won't<br>cut it to get to the level that I want. That's the personal reason;
<br>the practical reason is that I think it would be a good networking<br>opportunity (hankering to start my own company, and not meeting the<br>right kinds of people), and obviously increase my chance of getting<br>better paying, but especially more *interesting* jobs. I have some
<br>savings, figure loans would cover the rest, and no wife or kids.<br><br>So I'll make a rather open ended request for advice. Are there decent<br>comp sci master's programs out there that will take someone who didn't
<br>do a hard science in undergrad, but has lots of work-related<br>experience with programming? If not, what's the next best thing? Get a<br>quick bachelor's? Spend six months cramming for the GREs and then try<br>
for a master's?<br><br>Whether master's, bachelor's, or other, I am specifically interested<br>in programs that are "functional" friendly. In other words, I don't<br>want to just go and study algorithms in java for two years. Ideally,
<br>I'd like to go somewhere where I could really explore and get good at<br>the functional languages, with haskell my current favorite but also<br>open to others. (For what it's worth, most of my experience is in
<br>perl, but I take it seriously as a language and try not to write the<br>kind of throwaway crap that mean people make fun of.)<br><br>My background is that I have a liberal arts bachelors from an american<br>ivy. Though I enjoyed the program very much, it probably wasn't the
<br>wisest financial decision, given the type of career I subsequently<br>gravitated to. But hey, maybe that gives me a different kind of<br>perspective that has its own kind of value. Since, then, there;s<br>mainly work work work for me, with some time off bumming around
<br>europe. And, on my own time: learn learn learn. I'm now 31.<br><br>I've been living in germany for a few years, mainly freelancing as a<br>computer consultant, and am open to programs in europe -- probably<br>
either england or germany. Largely because programs out here seem to<br>be significantly cheaper than programs in the states, and being a<br>somewhat older student seems to be less unusual out here. However,<br>truth be told, I have a hankering for my homeland, the good old USA.
<br>And if possible somewhere in california, where my extended family is<br>based, or it not that new york, where I have a good network. (But open<br>to other locations as well; cali and new york would just be my top<br>choices.)
<br><br>Distance learning is okay if the program is really good, but doing the<br>campus thing again, perhaps while working part or semi-full time,<br>would be the ideal (though perhaps I'm pushing the age limit there?).
<br><br>This has gotten rather long, so I'll leave it at that.<br><br>Sorry about going off topic, and thanks in advance for any advice.<br><br>thomas<br>_______________________________________________<br>Haskell-Cafe mailing list
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