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Re:California teaches inmates code; some states ban them fro... by lovich on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:24AM (#15069682)
Do mechanical or electrical engineers do their jobs without access to datasheets or reference tables? In what world is engineering defined on a person's ability to remember facts vs their ability to build things inside of resource constraints and with high levels of tolerance?
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Re:California teaches inmates code; some states ban them fro... by bdcravens on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:19AM (#15069908)
I didn't say no reference materials, only Stackoverflow :-)
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Re:California teaches inmates code; some states ban them fro... by lovich on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:19AM (#15070171)
If you can guarantee documentation as good as documentation for physical materials then I'd say yea. I do agree that there are a portion of developers who seem to just copy and paste from stack overflow without even trying to understand whats happening
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Re:California teaches inmates code; some states ban them fro... by bdcravens on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:17AM (#15073218)
Yes, and that's was what I was referring to. My bigger point of course being that there are plenty of "engineers" that really don't know how to solve problems, but just assemble code.
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