Following my pre-Christmas post regarding aptitude tests for prospective programming staff we have now offered to post to what we consider is a suitable applicant. The person in question is a First class honours degree student in IT - but NO programming experience at all, which struck me a weird as how can you consider yourself an IT professional and know the depths of TCP/IP, networking protocol etc. and Never have been exposed to coding in any shape or form ever??? Eh, what is that all about .... But maybe that is a topic for another discussion in the future.
I need to get him over the initial hurdle of OOP and basic structured programming techniques"if... endif" "do ... while" etc. and wonder if anyone has any resources bookmarked that would assist in the learning process. Don't get me wrong, I am going to mentor him closely but really need to let him loose on some type of programming beginners course so I can see if he sinks or swims (hopefully the latter). It is scary how much we as pro's carry in our heads about techniques to solve problems in code and when you begin to look at it from a total beginner's point of view one realises what a huge leap in understanding and experience you have over mere mortals!! Any resource links will be useful and I specifically don't want him to start with C# or .Net stuff as I think that VFP is the ideal environment (being a fairly closed instruction set allied with Database inclusion) to get him up to speed before moving on to SQL Server, TSQL and C# etc. Ultimately he will be supporting our huge VFP legacy code so once again a good reason for starting with VFP. I am working on the basis of him being fairly self-sufficient in VFP to be able to read/understand our existing system bot not necessarily be able to modify it ... and estimate this will take 3-4 months. No timescale is being imposed on his learning phase but I want to get the most information into him in as short a period as possible. Dave --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/18725b8cd2d5d247873a2baf401d4ab246895...@ex2010-a-fpl.fpl.LOCAL ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
