Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006)
by pjc50 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:55AM
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In general, undergraduate assignments:
- are well specified and known to be completable
- start from a blank slate
- produce relatively short programs
- once complete and accepted, will never be run or looked at again
- are required to work individually
Whereas in a real software engineering department:
- goals will be to some extent vague and fluid, may be contradictory => requiring negotiation skills with PM, customers etc.
- you will nearly always be adding to an existing project => requiring ability to read code and perform archaeology
- programs end up huge => requiring schemes for better organisation, modularisation etc
- have a long life and a maintenance overhead => requires design for adaptability
- are required to collaborate => requiring use of a VCS, not having complete freedom to choose tools, techniques like CI and branching for managing incomplete vs complete work fragments.
Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006)
by malmsteen on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @09:18PM
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For whats worth i think that in college you mostly learn to learn... So what u learn Isn't that important, to me you are just proving that u can learn fast.
- are well specified and known to be completable
- start from a blank slate
- produce relatively short programs
- once complete and accepted, will never be run or looked at again
- are required to work individually
Whereas in a real software engineering department:
- goals will be to some extent vague and fluid, may be contradictory => requiring negotiation skills with PM, customers etc.
- you will nearly always be adding to an existing project => requiring ability to read code and perform archaeology
- programs end up huge => requiring schemes for better organisation, modularisation etc
- have a long life and a maintenance overhead => requires design for adaptability
- are required to collaborate => requiring use of a VCS, not having complete freedom to choose tools, techniques like CI and branching for managing incomplete vs complete work fragments.