This is an excellent idea. As a new graduate with 1.5 years experience, having others modify somone elses code, in school before they get to the real world, would improve documentation and make modifying and maintaing code in the future a much more pleasant experience.
-----Original Message----- From: James A. N. Stauffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:32 AM To: JDJList Subject: [jdjlist] Re: what is it like to be a programmer "in the real world" ? When you take a programming course that is just one large project and you like it then you can feel pretty safe that you will like being a programmer "in the real world". I there should be a course set like the following: Software Engineering 1: Create one large project from start to finish in a team. Software Engineering 2: Maintain, upgrade, and fix one large project that another team created. --- Nathan Tenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim, > > I don't mean to scare you (well, maybe I do), but > coursework programming is to real world programming as > riding a tri-cycle is to riding a mountain bike > downhill. In my experience, what you are expected to > do in most programming courses is only the smallest > portion of skills required to be a good real world > programmer. The real learning comes when you go > beyond what you are expected to do in your courses, > and spend some of your free time learning more. There > were only 3 or 4 of my courses in college that I think > really tested the programming skills I needed when I > got out in the industry. The rest, especially the > beginning courses were just so much fluff. I learned > more just working on projects that were of interest to > me. > > Also, I would suggest getting involved in computer > clubs, like Linux Users Groups and Java Users groups > in your area. They are a great source of knowledge, > and can provide opportunites outside of your normal > course work to expand your experience. > > --- Tim Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And to Joseph or anyone else who would like to > > answer:- > > > > Can you possibly tell me what it is like to be a > > programmer (in I assume the > > Java language) in the real world ? What I mean > > really by that is, what sort > > of code do you write in your job ? I assume you are > > working as a computer > > programmer ? > > > > So what sort of code do you produce and work with in > > your job ? And is this > > difficult code ? Would I find it difficult to > > understand and work with ? > > ===== > ---------------------------------- > Nathan Tenney > Alumni Utah State University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------- > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm ===== James Amos Nathaniel Stauffer Stauffer_James @yahoo.com Spam food: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
