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I'm glad someone brought this up. Someone might be able to start a successful solo business venture without any formal training. But that is very different from
by Dewie 13y ago
I'm glad someone brought this up. Someone might be able to start a successful solo business venture without any formal training. But that is very different from being an executive or having some administrative job in a medium or larger-sized company (I am assuming). The guy that started the solo business has that experience, great - but he's only got that perspective of being a business administrator. Do you need formal training to do most of the jobs that MBA's do? Maybe not - but the person who has only done that one solo business probably does not have enough perspective on that either.
In this case, I don't know if the author is only talking about building that one first app, apps in general or programming in general (probably just apps, I reckon). But if the audience is non-programmers who gets the impression that programming is just about "winging it" and that formal education is totally optional#, then it only offers a perspective from a very limited vantage point.
#this could be a valid opinion, but only really interesting to me if it came from an experienced programmer.
- blindhippo 13y agoMaking your own app where you are the only coder - there is no need for "formal training". You can slap together a glob of code, make it good enough to work and deploy without issue. "Even an MBA can do it" apparently. The need for formal training in software development comes when you need to work with other people on a project far bigger then your tiny piece of it. If everyone on a development team does their own thing, the result is a mess. Although, even if everyone is standardized and follows the plan, most software still results in a mess given enough time. Not sure what I'm concluding here. :/
- ValentineC 13y agoblindhippo: I thought I should mention that your posts are appearing dead to me.