I agree you'll find alot of people who don't know and who didn't goto college. But I can pretty much say that you'll find people from college that don't know either.
I know I understand all those concepts and I never went to college I've been doing software in all forms for 8 years now. I've taken training from gurus to cover all the bases and to me more knowledge is a huge motivation for me its awesome to learn more and more. I am also going to College classes in free time (not much with side work and teaching CF) to get a degree so I don't have to ever be told I'm not giving you this job because I gave it to someone with a college degree instead. My view is you'll find people who don't know crap anywhere, for the people that goto college and don't know crap you should feel worse for since they spent all the money and time and SHOULD have learned by didn't. But on the norm I agree that you will find many people who don't know the more detailed parts of "programming/developing/yadda yadda" Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer EDIETS.COM 954.360.9022 X159 ICQ 417645 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Wille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: programmer vs. developer > Dan, > You make a reasonable point. My experience is all that dictates my responses here. Also, the type of projects my company brings in. When my team is building a complex exterprise-level application, I want developers/programmers who can understand everything from performance tuning to properly-formed queries/Stored Procs. All that I've found thusfar is a lack of that kind of knowledge in many people, except those that come from a Software Engineering background. > > Does that mean that I wouldn't hire a perfectly competant developer/programmer who did NOT go to college for it? Not necessarily, but I would want to make sure that the person had a good foundational understanding of the type of development we do here. > > --Paul > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
