On May 30, Peter Scott said:
>*Curiosity* is an essential trait for the programmer. In all seriousness,
>if you don't have a deep desire to find out how things work - in
>particular, software - this may not be the field for you. Principally
>because our tools are rarely so perfect at encapsulation that they
>completely hide the underlying mechanism, therefore, it is necessary to
>understand the underlying mechanism and to want to get at it.
Curiosity without motivation is a bane, as I am sure those of us who have
been sitting in IRC channels and on mailing lists, for the purposes of
ANSWERING questions, are well aware. People that ask questions because
they need the answer, not because they want to learn the answer, are not
helpful programmers in the long run -- they know only what they've been
spoonfed, and have trouble formulating code or applying algorithms
themselves. They also have trouble explaining the code they cut and paste
from Joe Coder's program.
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