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Sat, 12 Jan 2008

This is just spot-on excellent!

I consider myself to be a pretty good programmer. At the same time, I’ve spent a fair amount of time on the business side of the fence, filtering technical CVs for projects, interviewing people, etc. Thanks to this, I think I have a bit of experience in recognising good programmers, and I want to share it in this article, in the hope that it may help other “business guys” to recognise good programmers. And, who knows, perhaps some programmers who have the potential to be good but haven’t really exploited this can also read this and realise what they need to do to become good (although, as I’ll argue, that’s definitely not accessible to all programmers!).

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On 1/12/2008 10:13:47
Analemma wrote

I was an undergrad at the end of the dotcom bubble in the late '90s, and minored in computer science because I thought it would be useful for my major. And fun. I had been writing small programs in a handful of languages for several years and Linux was already my operating system of choice. One day I was talking with classmates (who were CS majors) before class and mentioned something about the disk space required by my operating system and they were surprised that I knew how big my OS was - not because they had thought I was ignorant, but because they thought it was a strange thing for anyone to know. It eventually became apparent that most of the CS majors were there because they thought programming would make a good career with lots of money, not because they had any particular interest in it. I thought it was rather sad that as a minor, I had more interest in the subject than most of the majors (and seemed to know more than they did, too). I was well on my way to becoming a "good programmer" as described in the article when a programming project took over my head for several weeks and I could think of nothing else, even in my dreams. That was when I decided that it was probably unwise for me to code professionally or get involved in anything but small projects, and I have since let my skills become disgracefully rusty.

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