As humans we have an incredible desire to discover, categorize, and understand the world around us. We are not satisfied that an event has occurred. We also need to know why it occurred. If we hear that someone has died our first instinct is to ask how. If we see a magic trick we want to know how the magician fooled us. This desire leads us to constantly acquire more knowledge and can lead to innovation.
I believe that knowledge without application is almost useless. Knowledge is being aware that something has occurred and maybe recognizing why. Application is what we do with our knowledge. As software engineers we will need both knowledge of computer science as well as how to apply our knowledge to create the products of the future. In school we have massive amounts of labs so that professors can pound into our heads not only the theory of computer science, but also the implementation. I think that in our profession we will need to be constantly asking why things work they do and then apply that knowledge to be constantly innovative in our jobs.
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