The better programmers have an engineering background, IMO (or at least an "engineering way of thinking").
On May 15, 2:43 pm, Harri Smått <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 15, 2011, at 10:17 PM, DanH wrote: > > > If you look around, about half those posting here (and on other forums > > for other platforms) are kids who have essentially no programmer > > training but have managed to modify a few example projects to do > > interesting (to them) things and hence consider themselves to be > > programmers. > > I preferred not to make assumptions on the goals people have if all I see is > a question accompanied with a few lines of code. What ever they are, I'm > still hoping it's something they feel happy about once get around the > problems they're facing during this time. And even though not everyone will > be a 'real' programmer one day, it was the same during C64 era too, guess one > could say it shouldn't do any harm to have some basic insight on the topic > either. > > Actually, many of the people I admire yet today, didn't make it to software > industry. But having a background as a 'hobbyist programmer' still shows on > their work. > > -- > H -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
