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The four stages of programming competence
- ojbyrne 18y agoI think we need a "four stages of writing a blog post." And I quote: "the best way to learn is to perseverate"
- branden 18y agohttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=perseverate http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=perseverate In its context it's actually more meaningful than "persevere." Now if you're looking for an example of masturbatory diction, I go with his use of "exactitude."
- ojbyrne 18y agoThanks for the new word, though I still stand by my criticism.
- mjgoins 18y agoI have a feeling I'm going to be stuck between stages 2 and 3 for the rest of my life.
- Symbol 18y agoThis essay hits close to home. I was commenting the other day about how my laundry list of skills on my resume gets shorter by the year. It's not that the dog can't learn new tricks: the implicit message stated by a skill on my resume is deepening. Sure I did a semester of Prolog in college, but I can't in good conscience hit the ground running on a project, so it's dropped. Core skills, the things that define you as a hacker, are what lives on your resume "etched in stone". During an interview you can wax about how awesome Forth is or the time you developed a VRML site.