Quoting Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:When _I_ finished my course at sela I couldn't write anything with any value whatsoever so I can agree with you about someone just graduating from a technical school although alot of emphasis on practical efficient programming.
The way I see it 90% of the jobs people actualy do in CS are not so
mathimatically/alogorithmic wise complex that a simple administrator
that can code like me can't deal with.
Well, in my rich work experience, I've had to maintain a lot of other people's code. Let me tell you one thing - code written by someone clueful about algorithms and efficiency and data structures is *miles* away from code written by the "I learned by studying the Java book" or "I took a course at Sivan" kind of programmer.
I've heard many people being more happy with these technical school graduates for missions that don't require the scaling of the engineers to be a GUI programmer or a database programmer (whoops just covered 50% of the market if not more) one does not have to be a rocket scientist.
The typical problem that may occur is that when realy tough reqirements come along like having very strict memory/cpu resources or image manipulation stuff that triggers very optimised coding these people may not have the math for the algorithims.
But as I said I believe this to be 10% of the market.
The one things I believe you're missing out on is the ability of the individual to teach himself.
I have learned out of -
trial and error ,
google,
My Peers source,
My Peers advice,
Articles in various developer sites,
plain curiosity and intrest tons more then in my formal education and manage workers with second degree's with out feeling unworthy or oversimplistic.
The ability to learn alone is not something that you learn in the university and I think is one of the most importent skills that any wannabe programmer/IT proffesional shoulkd ever have.
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