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- From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
- Subject: Re: Programmers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.165639.24682@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
- Reply-To: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
- Organization: Snake Island Research Inc, Toronto
- References: <BuBBoJ.un@rice.edu> <peterd.716085594@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 16:56:39 GMT
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- In article <peterd.716085594@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com> peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
- >sabry@rice.edu (Amr Sabry) writes:
- >
- >
- >>Many people on this net implied that whoever can write a matrix
- >>multiplication subroutine in Fortran is a programmer.
- >
- >>Based on courses here at Rice University, here is a minimum list of
- >>*concepts* that a real programmer should know:
-
- Hmmm. There are several concepts that people who claim to be
- university graduates in CS have been failing to know, at least in
- recent interviews I've conducted (1985-now):
-
- a. Ability to spell.
- b. Ability to write simple, complete sentences in any language.
- c. Ability to communicate what they claim to know.
-
- These deficiencies (Yes, I KNOW they aren't concepts, but the idea
- is to deal with reality here...) are, as someone who hires
- programmers, MUCH more important on a day to day basis, than
- ability to design syntax analyzers, etc., even for someone in
- the compiler/interpreter-building biz.
-
- Bob
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