This afternoon I've got a half day off work so that I'm in for the BT engineer to install my phone line... at last! First thing I'm doing when it's installed is ordering ADSL and once I have that, I'll be able to blog a bit more frequently.

However, I thought I'd take a few moments out of work to pen my appreciation to the University of Southampton for their method of teaching. When it comes to programming, they didn't teach me a particular language, they taught me about the theories of languages, the difference between functional and declarative languages, all about procedural, object orientated and logic languages. They also teach the theories of data structures and algorithms and how to implement them in different types of language.

Basically, all in all, I'm able to take the knowledge and apply it to programming languages I've never seen before and still be able to code... It's just a matter of learning the syntax and a few builtin commands or modules which can be done in a matter of working days using books and the Internet.

I say all this because this morning I realised I'm doing some pretty advanced javaScript, coding an entire reporting system into the browser. Where before, I'd never really used jS apart from the showing and hiding function I use for comments on my website, I'm finding this fairly easy.

Kudos to the UoS.