Coding Guru.

[NPassero]

Article written by my boss. Thought I'd share.

http://roughgarden.com/

[crptcblade]

Needs more pictures.

[vbcode1980]

And less hyperlinks..

[NPassero]

dont click so much, you'll stay on the same page.

[nemaroller]

It's an adequate summary on the topic.

[wossname]

Tell your boss I think it is rubbish.

[mendhak]

All self-ordained experts like to call code, not written by themselves, bad.

[FunkyDexter]

All self ordained experts like to write articles in which they claim that they're not self ordained experts but that they do know more than the reader.

[mendhak]

All self ordained experts like to write articles in which they claim that they're not self ordained experts but that they do know more than the reader.

You write bad code.

[wossname]

I have been in the programming business for over 27 years and still would not consider myself an expert.

He either has an unrealistic expectation of what constitutes expertise, or he is just a manager. Many IT managers like to pretend to be programmers, it lets them "connect" with their workforce. The trick with programming is to stay on top of your game all the time. As soon as you stop doing it for a while you get sloppy and you lose the edge.

I think a lot of us VBFers could justifiably be labelled experts, Mend, Visualad, Noteme and me are undeniably experts in varying (and overlapping) areas of computer programming. Expertise (IMO) is the ability to invent new things or technologies using the tools you already have at the time. I also think that to become an expert you have to sacrifice other things to make it possible, eg. social time / working yourself to exhaustion or whatever, depending on what you want to be an expert at.

[zaza]

I think a lot of us VBFers could justifiably be labelled experts, Mend, Visualad, Noteme and me are undeniably experts in varying (and overlapping) areas of computer programming. Expertise (IMO) is the ability to invent new things or technologies using the tools you already have at the time. I also think that to become an expert you have to sacrifice other things to make it possible, eg. social time / working yourself to exhaustion or whatever, depending on what you want to be an expert at.

If only you had chosen to be expert in a field for which I might actually find a use one day.


*sigh*

[nemaroller]

He either has an unrealistic expectation of what constitutes expertise, or he is just a manager.

Well, I think he was describing the fact that no one person is an expert at programming in all areas, which is true.

You can be an expert at one area... but that doesn't make you very flexible career wise.

As far as experts at VBForums... we should have a poll.

I would nominate the following:

Merrion, Edneesis, hellswraith, sunburnt, Lord Rat, Cander, Magiaus.

[timeshifter]

I think a lot of us VBFers could justifiably be labelled experts, Mend, Visualad, Noteme and me are undeniably experts in varying (and overlapping) areas of computer programming. Expertise (IMO) is the ability to invent new things or technologies using the tools you already have at the time. I also think that to become an expert you have to sacrifice other things to make it possible, eg. social time / working yourself to exhaustion or whatever, depending on what you want to be an expert at.

I think I'm going to have a heart attack... unless I'm majorly misreading that, isn't that a very large compliment coming from wossy? and at not one, not two, but THREE people?!?

[lintz]

I got bored after reading the first line....

[Shaggy Hiker]

I think someone stole his brain....temporarily, but once they realized what they had, they put it back.

[learning c]

it needs a summary

[wossname]

Lets not forget that I payed myself a compliment too.

I only complimented those other guys to thinly veil my conceit.

[penagate]

I've not seen a programmer publish a web page which was generated by Microsoft Office before.

[wossname]

Probably because all the others aren't renderable in any modern browsers.

[System_Error]

What's the deal with bashing the teach yourself x in y days books? They are great books for beginners because they teach the basics of a language. The title is "teach yourself C++ in 21 days" not "know every algorithm by heart, be the best and be able to code with your eyes closed in 21 days"

Your boss is pooh.

VBF Experts:

CornedBee
sunburnt
woss
mend
vis

[penagate]

No-one was bashing the Teach Yourself books.

[NPassero]

I always just interpretted as this simple:

- No one will ever be an expert because the technology is always changing, and it is almost impossible to learn everything.

- It does not matter how you learned to program, via school or source codes, or do it yourself books, as long as you know what you are doing

- A guru is someone who has coded for a while, knows certain styles, and ways to get the job done. Not always on top of the newest technology but masters the current ones and continues to learn.