The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures

Re:The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data ... by dscrd on Monday October 08, 2012 @08:21AM (#4626498)

Hmm, does all this imply that a blue-collar IT-workers' class is rising? When I was working during the summers at construction sites in my youth, I noted that everybody all the time complained about the impractical decisions the engineers and architects had made, and grumbling that they had to be there to fix them.

Would they have been happier if they wouldn't have been needed at all?

(disclaimer: I tend to change my shirt between white-collar and blue-collar [figuratively, of course] where I work)

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Re:The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data ... by flatline on Monday October 08, 2012 @09:05AM (#4626634)

Interesting analogy. I think it more strongly implies that for the type of applications most frequently written, general intelligence and experience trump theoretical knowledge. Honestly the education you get from a BS in comp sci (the level of knowledge the post addresses) isn't going to qualify you for much more than the guy who has 4 years of experience on his résumé. Much less in some circumstances actually. This is a strange field.

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Re:The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data ... by mattdeboard on Monday October 08, 2012 @09:28AM (#4626724)

(Shameless plug) I just wrote about this very thing on Friday: http://mattdeboard.net/2012/10/05/larry-the-software-guy/

Not my best writing ever but that round's already downrange. Plus there's an excellent response from Alex Feinberg in the comments.

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