Re: Delphi in more schools (was Re: Microsoft here I come)


Make that "problem specific topics", and you've got your man<g>.

Well, it concerns me that core professional skills for any developer still seem to get widely neglected. You should know about patterns, refactoring, unit tests, and so on, regardless of what language you program in.

I often see Delphi developers in particular micro-focussing - see many of the threads here, for example :-)

The product out the end is a solution, at the proper time, or it's worthless.

Yes-ish. Most products don't come "out the end" though - they get continually developed. The most expensive part of most software is maintenance, where it spends up to 90% of its life. There are ways to make that cheaper, and usually those ways make it quicker to produce in the first place :-)

> I've known some very *smart* people with "flat minds".

Indeed.

I presume the CS college had similar methods.

I went to a university, not a college specifically aimed at one area, so we could do all sorts of subjects (I did Japanese for a year, for example). I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean, although there were some maths subjects I never got (I memorised how to derive Sylow p-subgroups, but I never understood what they were, really)

I hired only one new CS graduate.

It concerns me that there are so many untrained people in our industry. There is an attitude that if you go and do a VB (or whatever) course for 6 weeks then you're a programmer. You wouldn't get to be an electrical engineer just because you could draw a circuit diagram :-) Too many of those people either don't realise or don't care that there is more to it than knowing a programming language.

Having a CS degree is no guarantee you'll be good at the job, but at least you should have an exposure to the different facets of it.

Cheers,
Jim Cooper

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