It still amazes me the amount of times clients have asked me the same question.. getting hit by a bus.. no, we'll go with a big company instead.. only to find two years down the track they have a system which doesn't work and the big company been taken over or closed or the people employed there have no idea or intent of fixing the problems.
As a long suffering veteran of the industry (20+yrs programming) I see this time and time again, these days coding has become gui but has lost its first requirement of making something which will do the job, easily and understandable for any programmer to pick up and actually understand what is being achieved. How many times have we all been called in to fix a problem in some code (usually c / derivatives ) to find it takes us many hours to understand the intent whereas it has nothing to do with the desired result.
They might teach coding, but not common sense or learning what the needs are first.
W Edwards Demming must be turning in his grave.
Just my 2c worth
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It still amazes me the amount of times clients have asked me the same question.. getting hit by a bus.. no, we'll go with a big company instead.. only to find two years down the track they have a system which doesn't work and the big company been taken over or closed or the people employed there have no idea or intent of fixing the problems. As a long suffering veteran of the industry (20+yrs programming) I see this time and time again, these days coding has become gui but has lost its first requirement of making something which will do the job, easily and understandable for any programmer to pick up and actually understand what is being achieved. How many times have we all been called in to fix a problem in some code (usually c / derivatives ) to find it takes us many hours to understand the intent whereas it has nothing to do with the desired result. They might teach coding, but not common sense or learning what the needs are first. W Edwards Demming must be turning in his grave. Just my 2c worth