David Williams wrote:
> Yes, I've has several arguments with a programmer where I work. She
> does not believe
> a) You need to know any Computer Science to program well.
> b) You need to read manuals
> Her idea was that you just take similar working code and copy it!
> She reckons you very very rarely need to write new code and if you
> do "it's simple"!!.
> I had to explain that within a FOR loop you do not need to increment
> the contrl variable!! She has been programming for >5 years and did
> not know what a FOR loop was even though she had supported code which
> used for loops!!
> Also she said that "I never understood logic, it's all very hard".
> Even simple truth tables did not play a factor in her low level
> design of code.
> I sometimes wonder too....
>
> --
> David Williams
You work for Microsoft? :) MIKE...