On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
The "non-IT" thing is interesting.
At my company we have many application developers that started elsewhere at the
company. Me, for one. I personally had previous IT skills, and some schooling
in programming, but most of the others I believe did not.
Do non-IT people make better COBOL programmers? Why might that be?
Frank
Well, the rationale is, I think, that students in university IT
programs today will only have seen Windows / Unix / Linux and
they probably have a pre-disposition against the mainframe.
Do you remember Neodata up in Boulder, Frank? They used to have
an annual Entry Programmer Training series we ran for them.
One year there was a janitor working there who I met when
he was replacing a burned out fluorescent ceiling light. The
next year he was in the program (and that year the language
was Assembler). He ended up being a bit an Assembler guru
at the shop.
When I went through my first training at IBM, we had over 40
people in the course including accountants, a former stewardess,
two former ministers, and other backgrounds too varied to recall.
That reminds me: what ever happened to those IT apptitude
tests? You never hear much about them these days.
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