I had the privilege of mentoring our summer intern and I was blown away by how quickly he learned. He picked up Perl in a week, learned enough about Anova and

I had the privilege of mentoring our summer intern and I was blown away by how quickly he learned. He picked up Perl in a week, learned enough about Anova and R-squared analysis to create a very useful data parser and statistics package. He was an electrical engineer who has taken one programming class in school. Made me rethink our training gestation period for new hires.