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"As a general view, they have excellent memory and strong attention to detail. They are persistent and good at following structures and routines," he says. In o
by KevinMS 17y ago
"As a general view, they have excellent memory and strong attention to detail. They are persistent and good at following structures and routines," he says. In other words, they're born software engineers."
Wrong, completely totally backwards!
Good software engineers need to be good at communicating. They need to be good writers. It also helps if they have terrible memories, because if they forget easily then they are forced to write code thats easy for them to follow and understand days or years later, and consequently the same for the rest of us working with them.
- dasil003 17y agoThis also made me cringe. The thing that drove me to programming is how much I hate routine. All these traits are strengths of computers which we then program so we don't have to do those repetitive things ourselves. I suppose to the laymen writers at Wired us software engineers are just extensions of the computers we are seated at.
- iens 17y agoThey don't write software, they test it. They type in endless amounts of test data, and manually test all sorts of applications.