Subj : Re: Academic grades and programming
To   : comp.programming
From : Eric
Date : Sat Jul 30 2005 11:45 am

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:03:54 -0700, "karen"
<nospambugarsnotspam@ix.netcomspamnot.com> wrote:

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>Grades are an inadequate indicator of how a person will deal with all of the 
>above.  But sometimes, they're the one of the only indicators available, so 
>they are still used.  Can you write?  Can you deal with other people?  Can 
>you code?  Can you listen?  Can you get things done?  Those who can will 
>often get better grades, too.

I don't know. Wasn't it Bill Gates who said that for every 10 iq
points the productivity of a computer programmer doubles. So a 130 iq
programmer should be 8 times as productive as a 100 iq one. When you
are hiring people, that's a lot of extra productivity for a little
more money.

-E

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