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Wintermute  ·  4333 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Signs You're a Crappy Programmer (and don't know it)

I wish some of the kids taking computer science classes at my school showed some of these symptoms. Unfortunately, they are still struggling with for loops in their second and third programming classes. All of these imply that you are, at least, a programmer. That's more than a lot of people with CS degrees can claim.





joelg236  ·  4333 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's ridiculous to take computer science before knowing how to program, at least for me. I need to know English before I learn complex essays. Good advice for programming is everywhere, too bad people rarely listen to it.

Wintermute  ·  4333 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's an interesting point. I've never considered it like that. At my school, you do have to take at least one language class before you delve into anything deeper, but one is clearly not enough. It's tantamount to taking a single semester of a foreign language that you've never touched before, then enrolling in a college writing course in that language.