chidanzy:
What if someone wanting to take computer science as a course in a Nigerian University what advice can you give please?

What job can one get in Nigeria


*just hope some understand where I'm driving at

I am a bit late but i hope this still helps
It is okay to want to study computer science in the university, but except you are an idealist and you are really good at what you do, there is no guarantee that you are going to be successful, you could end up working for a "real" IT company in Nigeria (there are very few of those, by the way) and you will be underpaid, you will not really get what you are looking for except you decide to go and work outside Nigeria, Its just like a friend of mine in the US used to say "Over here, you can never get enough of programmers" they might be in very high demand over there but over here in Nigeria, except you have your own core idea and are willing to work on it, you are not going to have much going on for you.
Well that is except you are willing to go into theoretical computer science, you would end up as an academic though, i hear those guys get paid well enough at least.

Really? We hear things like this all the time and then it all goes away without a trace. We do not have an active military. Airforce, Navy.. nothing, they have all been dormant for over 2 decades. Boko Haram is a wake up call and they sure as hell are not waking up. They say our military ranks #42 in the world, its embarassing but number 42 is a favor to us.

Most schools are run by old people who were born in, i wouldn't go as far as to say "archaic times". But you get it.

I think academics kill creativity. School teaches you how to solve a problem in the way someone else already has. Mathematicians and Computer scientists in their right minds ultimately become programmers. I have always thought everything you need to know can be gotten from pure reason alone, Mathematics, Physics, Computer science.. I don't want to cram Newton or Einstein's equations, I want to know what was going on in his mind when the apple fell from the tree(even though this was just an anecdote) and derive his equations on my own.

HCpaul:
Answer - Question 1

All programming languages are not well mathematically oriented, as only but a few of them are fit enough in writting an operating system. Examples of mathematically oriented language include C, C++, and so on.

There has being many arguements that Java is becomming the giant of programming language, as it is used in written the android operating system. When comparing languages together, please compare with valuabe facts and not just with feasible evidence. There is no Superior language, as well as there is no Inferior language.

As a Mathematicain and the sametime a Computer Science, not just that but a physicist, electronic engineer, English advocate, a teacher, a company, and most especially, God vessel.
To me, languages that are not well mathematically well constructive can never emerge to be the best. That is why programmers are very ridicule in industry.
Since programming all started as a result of mathematical operation, languages will be meaningless by depreciating mathematics in prog lang.

I Rest my case but will continue by challenge.

I dont think anyone can be all these and still write like this, especially the 'English Advocate' part.