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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!deakin.OZ.AU!fulcrum.oz.au!steve
  2. From: steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: what skills does a programmer need
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug19.014720.26150@fulcrum.oz.au>
  6. Date: 19 Aug 92 01:47:20 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug16.193726.18754@usho93.hou281.chevron.com> <1992Aug17.155545.15339@uwm.edu> <17498@autodesk.COM>
  8. Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
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  11. In <17498@autodesk.COM> dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith) writes:
  12.  
  13. >In <1992Aug17.155545.15339@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk) writes:
  14.  
  15. >> Learning: the ability to master anything in a short time when required.
  16. >> Coding:   the ability to write code that is clear and concise.
  17.  
  18. >    also Attitude: knowing that just because you've got a degree, that
  19. >doesn't mean you can rest on your laurels and stop learning.  Keep an open
  20. >mind.
  21.  
  22. >    Motivation: I've run into too many "programmers" who just got
  23.  
  24. Organisation: Programming is not really hard per se. - writing a small
  25. program is something almost anyone can do. Writing an extremely large
  26. program is something almost no one can do well.
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  29.                             Steve
  30.                             steve@fulcrum.oz.au
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