RE: Growing your own programmers

["Harrell, Michael E" <michael.harrell@xxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

I work for EDS and am a former accounting person who decided to go the
technical route.  EDS has an incredible 9 week boot camp to turn
non-technical people into technical people.  It requires a large commitment,
but is very well run and worth the effort.  That experience supports the
idea that not all people can become capable programmers, even if they want
to.

My account also has tried to do this on a smaller scale by hiring an outside
company that teaches RPG and CL seminars.  The seminars are very good at
teaching RPG to people already capable in another programming language, but
we have had limited success teaching structured coding techniques through
the seminar format.  To echo what has been said by some others here, the
advantage to growing people in-house is their knowledge of our industry and
customer, which complements our purely technical people very well on
projects.

Mike Harrell
Information Analyst
EDS TSC-North
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