Ignoring the last sentence of the excerpt because it's utter twaddle, the rest sort of makes sense.
Except for one thing - creeping nichification[1]. If you make a series about a mute muslim lesbian who wants to be an NFL quarterback the list of people interested in watching it will be shorter than the end credits.
Making someone who may otherwise not pursue programming, a great programmer.
It's much more likely to be the other way round - someone with potential is put off by a bad teacher. Though I suspect they'll come back at some point.
P.S. What you wrote isn't a proper sentence. Is it somebody's law that discussions about education attract people who haven't had one?
That rather depends on how the 4 billion is distributed, doesn't it? If it included all the females I suspect it'd go down rather steeply within 80 or so years.
Let's suppose it was uniform across race, sex, age, eye colour, blood group, yada yada - just as if they were drawn at random. Given that the population was at that level within my lifetime and we seemed to cope OK I'd say there'd be no effect at all.
Well said. If there's one thing I find illogical and annoying it's crying that someone picked the ball up when the solution is not to drop the goddam thing in the first place.
Or to put it another way, if they aren't pissing it's no foul to drag them off the pot.
A while back I had to fix a billing application that, for each item on a contract, hit the DB to get the billing history of every item on the contract.
I didn't, at that time, know about O notation. I knew it was wrong, though.
But you start using a more robust language like Ruby,Swift,Go, Javascript you will need it.
What specific features do they have that require it?
Perhaps the compilers ask you questions and refuse to continue if you can't say whether one polynomial is a factor of another, or what the integral of x cos(x) is?
I've had that conversation too. Then the other person said he couldn't possibly program $_something_complicated_about_signal_processing (or was it $fiendish_mutimodal_supply_chain_optimisation) without all of it.
Seems some people confuse programming itself with the problem domain or the subject matter. You certainly don't need much beyond highschool level for writing CrapCo's inventory system.
Or COBOL ones. Mind you, most of them don't know what interwebs are so you're unlikely to ever meet one unless you walk into a pub and there's a Fairport Convention tribute band playing.
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Right. Because those two things are mutually exclusive.
I'm not sure they're even coding libraries. Looks to me like it's designs all the way down.
Thanks. Now I've got a Status Quo song stuck in my head.
I think you're generalising based on *your* school.
Is this true of all subjects, or is yours "special'?
Ignoring the last sentence of the excerpt because it's utter twaddle, the rest sort of makes sense.
Except for one thing - creeping nichification[1]. If you make a series about a mute muslim lesbian who wants to be an NFL quarterback the list of people interested in watching it will be shorter than the end credits.
[1] It totally is a word, now.
Where did he say that he was insane? Learn to parse a sentence already.
P.S. ITYM sanatorium, unless you're suggesting he has tuberculosis.
One, I don't think there's a hard distinction between teachers and tutors.
Two, even if there was you'd be struggling due to a shortage of good tutors.
An old Italian tradition was to take babies to farms to smell the air. Occasionally old people with an ailment would do it too.
Irony isn't an adjective describing horseshoes, frying pans and nails.
Quantity has a quality all of its own.
It's much more likely to be the other way round - someone with potential is put off by a bad teacher. Though I suspect they'll come back at some point.
P.S. What you wrote isn't a proper sentence. Is it somebody's law that discussions about education attract people who haven't had one?
Perhaps you should look for an English equivalent.
That rather depends on how the 4 billion is distributed, doesn't it? If it included all the females I suspect it'd go down rather steeply within 80 or so years.
Let's suppose it was uniform across race, sex, age, eye colour, blood group, yada yada - just as if they were drawn at random. Given that the population was at that level within my lifetime and we seemed to cope OK I'd say there'd be no effect at all.
So I hurd.
Well they don't grow on trees, do they?
Well said. If there's one thing I find illogical and annoying it's crying that someone picked the ball up when the solution is not to drop the goddam thing in the first place.
Or to put it another way, if they aren't pissing it's no foul to drag them off the pot.
If it's static you're going to do it once, and that's it.
How is it possible to be off by almost an order of magnitude when counting trees? It's not as if the fucking things fly around, is it?
You're jumping to a lot of conclusions there. I certainly wouldn't call this feller a poofter. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/h...
Oh, and it's salon. A saloon is where cowboys drink.
A while back I had to fix a billing application that, for each item on a contract, hit the DB to get the billing history of every item on the contract.
I didn't, at that time, know about O notation. I knew it was wrong, though.
What specific features do they have that require it?
Perhaps the compilers ask you questions and refuse to continue if you can't say whether one polynomial is a factor of another, or what the integral of x cos(x) is?
In the sense that they're both true?
I've had that conversation too. Then the other person said he couldn't possibly program $_something_complicated_about_signal_processing (or was it $fiendish_mutimodal_supply_chain_optimisation) without all of it.
Seems some people confuse programming itself with the problem domain or the subject matter. You certainly don't need much beyond highschool level for writing CrapCo's inventory system.
Or COBOL ones. Mind you, most of them don't know what interwebs are so you're unlikely to ever meet one unless you walk into a pub and there's a Fairport Convention tribute band playing.