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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!and!jos
- From: jos@and.nl (Jos Horsmeier)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Any hope for me..?
- Message-ID: <4322@dozo.and.nl>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 12:39:16 GMT
- References: <C0CC1w.2F5@netnews.jhuapl.edu> <726355710snz@panache.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: AND Software BV Rotterdam
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- In article <726355710snz@panache.demon.co.uk> raph@panache.demon.co.uk writes:
- |When I employ programmers I prefer those with a degree in English or History
- |or Physics, or anything except CS. They tend to have more rounded knowledge
- |and don't think that they know it all.
- |
- |My experience of CS graduates is that, by and large, they have read nothing
- |and know nothing that was not in their degree course.
-
- I've been thinking about your preferences towards non CS graduates, but
- I still find it a remarkable opinion. Here in the Netherlands, people
- with an degree in English or History (as you wrote) know next to nothing
- about computers, mathematics and computer science.
-
- Are you actually telling us that, after you've employed those people,
- you're retraining them? Don't you think that doing so would be very
- cost ineffective. I estimate that it would take at least a year or so,
- before these people start being productive.
-
- I'm not trying to tell you that CS graduates are always an _ideal_ choice,
- but I don't see many alternatives besides physicians, mathematicians and
- CS graduates. (that's what the loonies that walk around at our company,
- claim to be ;-)
-
- kind regards,
-
- Jos aka jos@and.nl
-