I totally agree with it. virtually 100% - I will take this as a basis for a different direction though....
I've had a similar conversation with a couple of people lately, but the topic was slightly different. Someone asked me why I thought more women weren't programmers and why female programmers often aren't taken seriously. My answer was essentially that it it less typical to find a woman who's willing to dedicate the time and passion required to really learn technology off the clock. Men are much more likely to become obsessed with any one thing and spend hours upon hours on that thing - and that's really what's required for three of the six items on the list Passion, Self Teaching, and Hidden Experience. Most of the best programmers I've met spent some portion of their life essentially hiding in a cave and coding for an unreasonably high percentage of their free time. I haven't met many women willing to do this. Women certainly often have other factors from that list such as Intelligence, Variety of Technology, or Formal Learning, but those things alone don't always make up for the obsessive, almost insane, passion for technology that you find in many men. -Cameron Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > Sean posted this to his blog, but I was wondering how many of you read > it and agree with it. > > http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/ > > I work with a guy who is exactly opposite of this list while I match > up with quite a bit of it. That may sound like I'm tooting my own > horn, but I've become the goto guy for any kind of programming > question in my company. Heck, the other guy is the "VB" guy, but I > still field all the macro questions and vb scripting questions! > > I don't necessarily know if matching all these criteria make me a > "good" programmer, but programming is something I've known I've wanted > to do since my first VIC-20 at the tender age of 11. It frustrates me > a lot of times to see the crap code this other guy puts out, but on > the other hand, it's seems to be what business wants. "Does it work? > Great, ship it!" seems to be the motto. > > I on the other hand battle with the urge to make the code more sleek, > beautiful, etc before it ships.....sometimes to the point where I miss > deadlines. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250678 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
