One of my grads called me this morning, from Cambridge/England after trying three times to connect with me yesterday. I hadn't talked to him in 10 years.
[[ He called to say that (1) his Amazon interviewers loved everything on his CV that I had suggested to him way back -- but that's the unimportant part. Good students know and acknowledge where they learned the relevant stuff. ]] He called to say (2) that he had been asked to interview 85 people for Amazon recently and that it confirmed all my predictions I had made to him as he grew up with me. These people graduate from "Java is all there is you need to know" so-called universities; they know the syntax; they know the JDK and SDK; they know Eclipse menu entries; they know some keyboard short-cuts; but they don't know any concepts. They can't think. They are unlikely to make a positive contribution and cannot be recommended. So perhaps it's not on people's list, but it is on the list of second-level interviewers at shops that understand the value of software. -- Matthias On May 30, 2014, at 1:26 PM, George Rudolph <rudolp...@citadel.edu> wrote: > Matthias, > The computer science/programmer purist in me agrees with you. > The pragmatist in me sees though, that "proper coding" is not only not > a priority for many people, it doesn't even show up on the list > of things that matter. > > Should it? yes! > George > -----Original Message----- > From: users [mailto:users-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Matthias > Felleisen > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:57 PM > To: Nick Shelley > Cc: users > Subject: Re: [racket] off-topic -- Re: Live coding with Racket? > > > On May 30, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Nick Shelley <nickmshel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> the audience that wants to learn and be engaged with minimal reading. >> Whether that's an audience worth catering to is another question and one I'm >> not equipped to answer. > > > I am absolutely sure you are correct that this audience exists, I am equally > sure it's growing, I expect someone will take care of them with spoonfuls of > principles that they can eat for dessert, but I won't be me. The best I can > hope for is that the person who delivers these bite-size pieces of principles > will be informed by my ideas on how to get people to code properly. > > -- Matthias > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
