Jason cited Tomm: > <<No offense intended, but I have found that, many times (but there are > exceptions), people who are best at writing about programming are not the > same ones who are best at programming -- and vice versa. Here's hoping > you're one of the exceptions.>> My first external programmer's job ( right "out" of the University with its relatively slow non-commercial IT projects within the Physics(!!!) department ) told me the following - through the brain and voice of the IT department's chief (who probably hadn't learnt IT subjects or programming himself but had best contacts to the medical customers and good communication abilities [!!!] ) : A good (= "wanted") programmer is a 50% / 50% mixture of both: He writes (Java/C++/Cobol/Fortran/...) code + a sufficient (= nearly equal when counting characters) amount of commentary along with it so that the next programmer that continues the project (in many cases this is the case 1 year later) can do his job as well.
sincerely, U. Penski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://uuhome.de/penski ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: [jdjlist] Re: gap between universities and employers ???? > Tomm wrote: > > >>However, generally I have found it better to have the degree. ... ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
