Posted on 01/05/2016 1:24:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Why is her computer turned off? Real programmers don’t quit.
Thank you for the list. Wow. Each would take me three months to learn. That would be ten new programs learned in (let’s see, 3x10=30 and divide by 12, um, calculator) two and a half years.
My friend who teaches computers at UCSB told me that incoming students need to build Pong in one week.
It happens... sometimes. As a senior systems engineer, I had my hands in a lot of areas. Once, a beautiful systems programmer joined one of the groups I worked with. She was from Ukraine, recently liberated from the U.S.S.R. after the breakup. Very timid and shy, she asked me to shield her from other guys who were flirting with her, because she knew I was happily married (and an old guy). It was a joy escorting her around and taking her to lunch, looking at her blue eyes and blonde hair, and hearing her heavy accented English. In the 1990s a lot of Russians and Ukrainians were coming here to the U.S. in search of work. This gal formerly worked in nuclear science back home, and was extremely smart. Within a year she left for a better paying job, and I missed her. Sigh... quite a departure from many foreign programmers who were nerdy or crazed guys.
#1 Paid Programming skill .... Deleting emails
My main programmer/developer was a very capable Catholic girl. She was a very good Catholic girl too, because she had 6-8 children (the exact number escapes me). Very attractive, super skills, and tom boyish personality - everyone liked her.
She understood what was needed, without a lot of explaining. The system was a critical one to our operations and we relied heavily on her for maintaining and revising it (we were constantly adding to and modifying this system).
She even had a great voice for creating temporary voice prompts, until we could have them professionally reworked. So yes, I agree, there are a few very good women programmers.
Nobody needs more than FORTRAN.
ForTran forever!
You’re correct, Mister. We sent people to the moon with FORTRAN and I’m proud to say I was a part of it.
I must be really stupid because I have been doing java and web applications for 20 years and I am still learning new things about the language and web app development. You must be a genius.
There are probably 3 people in the world that have all those qualifications.
A good software engineer can write FORTRAN in any language.
We still do. :)
I retired so there’s only 2 left. (LOL)
ping
Yep, and I distinctly remember guys turning blue, alarms and reboots on descent, until poor Armstrong had to take over and land the Eagle manually!
Maybe FORTRAN scared everyone so badly is the real reason we've never went back to the moon! ;-)
Now if only they'd had ADA!
We used to be able to assess a problem and design/code programs that solved the ptoblem. Does someone tell the coder what to code?
Good point. Learning a computer language in three months seems common for students in computer science at UCSB. However, I needed twelve months to learn how to use InDesign by Adobe. I’m always humbled when talking to cheerful, nerdy c.s. students who have a gift with coding and a potential for good income.
In University, CS students learn data structures and the basics of a language. They are far from knowing the nuances and of applying them to the real world.
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