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> When you ask them to create a list by hand (using classes or structs) ... What about asking somebody to write (and compile/execute) a hello world program in
by 0xmohit 10y ago
> When you ask them to create a list by hand (using classes or structs) ...
What about asking somebody to write (and compile/execute) a hello world program in a terminal window?
I've run across numerous who can't do that without an IDE. Isn't that [1] the most basic part of programming?
[1] being able to compile
- Retra 10y agoKnowing what a compiler does is basic knowledge. Knowing how to invoke a specific one from a command line is a matter of culture. It's like the difference between knowing the physics of baseball and the rules of baseball. One is general knowledge, the other is specific to the culture, and knowledge about the later implies very little about the former, and vice versa. You'd probably be better off giving someone the binaries for a broken hello-world and asking them to debug it.