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- From: larry_kearney@appsig.com (Lawrence Kearney)
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- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 15:51:47 -0700
- Organization: Applied Signal Technology
- Message-ID: <larry_kearney-0902961551470001@amaryllisp1.appsig.com>
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- Getting a degree from college is far more than just taking and passing
- classes. If you really apply yourself, you learn how to learn. What they
- teach in school is often not very useful in the "real" world in a direct
- sense but it does prepare you in how to analyze new problems, apply the
- skills you've mastered previously, and derive new techniques that fill in
- the gaps that your education or prior experience didn't cover.
-
- Being an EE with 18 years of experience who does software design, I don't
- know what the curriculum is these days but I would hope that it covers
- more than just coding. Coding is actually a small part of the total
- software development cycle. Being good at banging out code doesn't make
- you successful developer if the code you write is not testable or nor
- reliable nor understandable and maintainable by either yourself or, more
- likely, by those who follow you.
-
- I interview candidates for fulltime software positions at my company and I
- would give higher consideration to someone who has completed college but
- may not have the same level of coding skills as someone who never attended
- or didn't complete their degree. Yes, there are exceptions but I think
- that there are far fewer of them than one might believe. So far, I haven't
- encountered any.
-
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- Larry Kearney | "You want fries with that?"
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