Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world? To : comp.programming From : Rotes Sapiens Date : Sat Jul 30 2005 12:02 pm On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:19:51 GMT, efriedNoSpam@yahoo.com (EricF) wrote: >In article <1122071054.876109.126310@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Mike Deeth" wrote: >I have a MS in CS and I graded papers/programs for a few into classes to help >pay tution. I was appalled at the low quality of 90% of what I graded. 5% of >them were very high quality - but they belonged to members of 1 nationality >and were identical. If you are going to steal, steal from the best. ;-) I was accused of plagiarism twice when I was at uni. The stupid students who stole my software hadn't even bothered to change the variable names. I was able to prove my innocence by showing the 20 pages of notes I had made while writing the language. He couldn't and was asked to leave the uni. >But the members of these intro classes came from a variety of disciplines and >most of them were not CS majors. >Most programmers work with business applications and don't need to be computer >scientists or mathmeticians. Most of us don't write operating systems or >compilers. In my early days I used mainframe Cobol and implemented a hashing >algorithm to do some lookups. No one in my group had a clue how it worked - >but they knew what they knew and were a big help when my program threw an >exception. I've always found business programming a lot more straight forward than technical programming. Writing a payroll app is a lot easier than a speech recognition program |-) Sig: I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov .