Re:Why Can't Programmers Program? (2007)
by jean_claude on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:22PM
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>Who writes a linked list in Javascript? Or Python? Or even C++? I haven't had to code a linked list since the 1990s.
Neither have I, but I didn't write that bloody circular queue in SPARC-V9 assembly language for nothing!
But, seriously, so many interviews are full of these sorts of questions. It's almost like they're trying to hire a reference book... or they don't know how to interview and just use the same sort of methods they were exposed to.
Re:Why Can't Programmers Program? (2007)
by jasonthevillain on Saturday June 11, 2016 @04:54PM
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Yes. If anything, architecture skills are way more important.
How much low-level knowledge does a programmer need today? There's an old-school approach to computing that starts with explaining binary, then goes on to gates, progresses to a full adder, and goes on to an entire arithmetic unit. Few people need that today.
But they probably need to know too much about CSS selectors. Statistics is becoming more necessary to programmers than binary logic. Programming today is following an endlessly churning mess of APIs.
(Today's grumble: the author of the serial port library, "pyserial", decided to change the API so that baud rate is set by "ser.baud = N" instead of "ser.setBaud(N)", breaking existing code. This isn't progress, it's faddism.)