Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me

theodp writes "In a widely-read WSJ Op-Ed, English major Kirk McDonald, president of online ad optimization service PubMatic, informed college grads that he considers them unemployable unless they can claim familiarity with at least two programming languages. 'Teach yourself just enough of the grammar and the logic of computer languages to be able to see the big picture,' McDonald advises. 'Get acquainted with APIs. Dabble in a bit of Python. For most employers, that would be more than enough.' Over at Typical Programmer, Greg Jorgensen is not impressed. 'I have some complaints about this "everyone must code" movement,' Jorgensen writes, 'and Mr. McDonald's article gives me a starting point because he touched on so many of them.'"

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Re:English Major, Online Ad Agency Owner

[hairyfeet]

Not to mention that this fuckwit, if anybody followed mcDouche's advice, would simply be someone who "knows enough to be dangerous" and would be about as fucking useful to a real programmer as the PHB is to Dilbert. Just another dumbass spewing words he picked up like "agile programming" and getting in the damned way of the ones actually doing the damned job.

Hey, real programmers, don't you just fucking HATE that type? Don't you just loathe their very breathing because you know those breaths are gonna give them the ability to spew more shit they don't know WTF they are talking about at you? Frankly i don't think I've ever met anybody that liked having a "knows enough to be dangerous" in their midst, its probably one of the most annoying things one could have in their work environment, right up there with "girl who bathes in stinky perfume" and "fat bastard that leaves a sweat trail all summer' on the bug the hell out of you scale.