On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:18:10 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote: > On 09/27/2017 09:41 AM, leam hall wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> >> wrote: > [snip] >> >> The question is, what should a person "know" when hiring out as a >> programmer? What is 'know" and what should be "known"? Specifically >> with Python. >> >> > Hopefully NOT like this person... > (Source: http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_misc.shtml There is no direct > link to this item, it's about 2/3 the way down in a long web page...) > > <quote> > Since I teach nights at a local community college, I get a lot of > professional programmers in my classes upgrading their education. One > student, who was one such person, attended every lecture and smiled and > nodded and took notes. But he only turned in his first assignment. The > results of his first test were horrid. Out of curiosity, I asked my > wife, who barely knew how to turn a computer on much less program one, > to take the test (which was mostly true/false and multiple choice > questions). My wife scored higher than this guy. > > The semester's end came, and he flubbed his final, too. A few weeks > later, I got a call from him complaining about his 'F'. I pointed out he > hadn't turned in any of his assignments, and those counted 75% of the > grade. > > "Did you hear me say something besides what the other students heard?" I > asked. > > "Well, I thought my test grades would carry me," he replied. > > It had turned out his company had paid for him to take the course. Since > he failed, it suddenly came to the attention of his employer that he > didn't know how to program, and now his job was in jeopardy. As I hung > up the phone, I mused that his company shouldn't fire him. It was a > perfect match: a programmer who couldn't program and a company that > couldn't figure out sooner that he couldn't. > </quote>
the whole page seems to be full of "look how dumb this user is because they do no automatically know things that I had to learn" -- After they got rid of capital punishment, they had to hang twice as many people as before. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
