I wonder if all this can be traced back to India's education system: "Modern education in India is often criticized for being based on rote learning rather than problem solving. BusinessWeek denigrates the Indian curriculum saying it revolves around rote learning.[67] and ExpressIndia suggests that students are focused on cramming.[68]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_india#Issues But Ghose raises an important point about it also being a cultural issue. Heh, wish there was a well-researched Wikipedia article on this topic! -srid On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why do indian programmers ask for code in Usenet (particularly Google >> groups) ? > > Most Indian programmers were never supposed to be programmers. They > simply lack the cognitive skills required to be in the business. Yet > they are the ones who work for large/medium/small software service > companies. So when they face a problem, they have absolutely no clue > as to where to look for solutions. They also have no idea about the > various programming communities and their modus operandi. They just > join some random group and ask for solutions (it's akin to asking for > some software in some shareware group). > > The problem is also inside the organisations; people who ask their > seniors questions are deemed to be fools, etc. > > I think there is no solution to this specific problem. It's more of a > culture issue. Unless and until parents let their children do whatever > they want and the society treats people from all professions equally, > people will keep flocking into the most fashionable profession of that > decade. Computer programming is on its way out... management is much > more fashionable now; the only difference is that a programmer's work > revolves around the Internet and the Internet never forgets :) > > Regards, > BG > > -- > Baishampayan Ghose > b.ghose at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers