On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Following my pre-Christmas post regarding aptitude tests for prospective > programming staff we have now offered to post to what we consider is a > suitable applicant. The person in question is a First class honours degree > student in IT - but NO programming experience at all, which struck me a > weird as how can you consider yourself an IT professional and know the > depths of TCP/IP, networking protocol etc. and Never have been exposed to > coding in any shape or form ever??? Eh, what is that all about .... But > maybe that is a topic for another discussion in the future. > > > We have interns from the local community college Networking program coming through here for 6 months or so at a time. I don't work with them directly at all, but the last one seemed pretty sharp so I thought I'd show him a thing or two. Nothing major, just some scripting but mainly of using scheduled tasks to do your bidding.... Write something once and have the computer remember to do it for time on end... He had no idea about this concept. No admin skills whatsoever, no concept of doing something like this. Personally I don't know how you can be involved with networking and such and not be tasked with digging through log files and error logs, net traffic... Automate that stuff! But nope - they don't teach that... -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/capt54ryfl9vnbl6o+wd8raltk_wdfs48md0bjklofomoh4o...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
