and as another spin on Scott's point...

it can get to the stage where any ol' monkey can code... 

but those that can code within well thought out designs/patterns, creating code 
that is easy to maintain, is robust and secure and has a future past the next 
pay check...

so that's where maybe the 3+ years kick in - enough experiance maintaining a 
project and saying "damn! I'll never code like that again..."

learning from programming books - hundreds of dollars
courses teaching programming - thousands of dollars
school of hard knocks - priceless....

my 2c 
barry.b


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott
> Barnes
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2005 9:50 AM
> To: CFAussie Mailing List
> Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Why "minimum 3 years experience" ?
> 
> 
> > Year 3 : By this stage your either stale and been working 
> in  the same place
> > for 3 years doing the same stuff and havent really 
> developed your skills
> > much more than you had last year, worked for a hand full of 
> people expanding
> > your skills or given up.
> 
> I'm on two minds about the 3rd point. 
> 
> Its easy to start a project, but its hard to finish and then support
> that project post its completion. In that i'd respect a developer more
> so who's completed 3 projects, but spent a year+ supporting those
> projects then someone who's completed 5 projects and has never
> supported thine projects.
> 
> I say this as when you think on it some more, its probably some much
> needed skillset that gets overlooked, as it would not only test the
> developers discipline in terms of code hacking, but also gives them
> experience in terms of "what to be mindful of" when next approached
> for a new project.
> 
> An interesting concept appeared locally here, where we built an
> application and rolled it out, it works but now we have to slide in a
> few features (needed to be scaled ) but also adhere to some Sax
> (Sarbanes-Oxley) audit requirements which meant it needed a closer
> look.
> 
> Point: There is more to a an application then just coding.
> 
> But I agree with your other points, well done steve *pats steve on the
> head, and feeds him a biscuit*...
> - 
> Regards,
> Scott Barnes
> http://www.mossyblog.com
> 
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