Re: Time to get serious

Hi Dave,

In fact it's been a truism for many years in the UK that we would rather
employ Arts graduates for IT positions (including programmers) than Computer
Science 'nerds'. This is the opposite approach to how it is in France, where
they like the 'Cartesian' way of teaching, and prefer Computer Science
graduates. Here we prefer people who have learned to think and to use their
minds, which is how Arts graduates traditionally turn out when taught by our
non-Cartesian methods! Classics and Modern languages graduates especially
seem to make good programmers...

cheers,

Clare

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Smith, Dave" <DSmith@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: Time to get serious


OK....let's take it easy on the MIS grad thing.

Many of the greatest minds I know in this business never got a degree.
I've also worked with many Liberal Arts majors who have become very
successful programmers/analysts.   I find a little common sense and the
ability to communicate...something the CS grads seem to lack :>) go a
long way in this business.  Learning a language and programming are the
easy parts.


David Smith
BSBA Major - MIS :>)




Joe,

You may agree, but the way you phrased the original
quote and many of your postings in general seem to say that new
graduates in general don't know how to program.

If you're talking about MIS grads, I'd agree.  That is
not the case with CS grads.

I just wanted to clarify that IMHO, there is a
difference.


Charles


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