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- From: uad1221@dircon.co.uk (David Lomax)
- Subject: Re: experienced NeXTSTEP programmer shortage
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:07:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.120709.16965@dircon.co.uk>
- References: <1992Dec15.195018.5227@afs.com> <1992Dec16.173453.11404@pages.com>
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- > In article <Bz6wo3.Jz6@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
- (David
- > Lemson) writes:
- > Dave and I
- > taught ourselves NeXTSTEP programming in less than three months
- (and I had
- > only programmed in ... BASIC ... before), although I'll admit
- it takes
- > almost a year to get really fluent at it. Since then, we have
- taught
- > everybody else in amazingly short periods of time.
-
- > Everyone else just has to be reasonably smart and open-minded.
-
- When you talk about teaching smart/open-minded people NeXTSTEP,
- are you assuming that even though they have no previous NeXT
- experience, they do have previous OOP/D experience. If this
- is the case then your comments indicate that you are writing
- mainly UI based apps. In my experience you are correct, a couple
- of "NeXTSTEP gurus" around is what you need to get people productive
- in IB/appkit/DBkit etc. It is definately *not* my experience
- that you can teach/assist in this way, OOP/D to people who have
- not been exposed to it before. It just takes time for people
- to *really* get their head around this way of thinking.
-
- There are no mind bending concepts in NeXTSTEP to learn, just
- a question of reading manuals, asking questions and playing
- around; a volume of information to remember (and this is not
- peculiar to NeXT). But that is not the end of the story. What
- takes longer and is harder to get your head around is OOP/D.
- Now whether this is an issue depends on what you want your staff
- to do and what type of apps you write.
-
- I would be very happy to take on staff who had never used a
- NeXT box before but would be a lot more retiscent about people
- who had no OOP/D experience.
-
- David Lomax
-