Re: Growing your own programmers

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >"It still takes 3-6 month for an experienced programmer to become productive
> >and years to become an ASSET."
> >
> >Surely that can't be true.  If it were true, there would be no contract
> >work.  Just my opinion.
> 
> Oh, it's true.  I've seen some of the 'program specs' given to our contract
> programmers--  it's either pseudo code or code fragments interspersed with
> comments describing in excruciating detail how to write the program.


hmm.  i think that's one of those 'it depends'.  it depends on the scope
of the project, on the industry, on the individual!

i've been thrown into a project in the auto industry over the past week,
and some of the terms they throw around are foreign to me!

i had to write an interface program to process the file received from gm
to load it to the software to process it, that they'd written.  i
browsed the code she'd written, and tried to write it in a similar style
so they could support it after i was out the door.  

i certainally didn't need to understand the whole auto industry to write
an interface program.  just that little nitch.

but we written and supported software for an industry, that we've been
working with for 20 years now.  i would wager no one in the us totally
understands that industry from top to bottom like i do!  

nj
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