OT: CS education gone wrong (Was: Re: TDD is BS?)

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Fri Jun 21 04:10:42 PDT 2013


On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 06:34:09 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 6/21/13, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
>> In spite of it all, though, we still sometimes end up hiring 
>> people who,
>> 6 months down the road, write code that makes you scratch your 
>> head
>> going "huh?! that genius coder we hired wrote *this* junk?!".
>
> Seems like nowadays it's not too far-fetched to ask for a
> github/bitbucket/etc username and see the work they've done, 
> the way
> they write code, contribute, etc. It should give a better 
> "feel" than
> any interview.

Except not everyone has the authorization to place their work 
code in such public places nor the availability or desire to code 
after work, just to please job interviewers.

--
Paulo


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