RE: /400 skills test

["Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@xxxxxx>]

I did mention it in a round-about way.

"Have you read Code Complete?"

That tells me A TON about a programmer. If you haven't read this book, you
need to. It's THAT good.

RE: Gender-neutral pronoun

Writers are recommending using "they". Not the best grammer, but beats "he
or she" or -- worse -- "s/he".

-- Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Gwecnal@aol.com [mailto:Gwecnal@aol.com]
Sent: May 18, 2000 3:38 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: re: /400 skills test


In a message dated 5/18/2000 11:26:19 AM EST, boothm@earth.Goddard.edu
writes:

> No one else has even mentioned looking at actual code as a means of
> evaluating a programmer.  Why not?

This is a good point - it would be valuable to know what the applicant 
thought was good code.  Even if I could not know that the applicant wrote
it, 
I would know that the applicant (geez, I wish English had a gender-netural 
pronoun!) at least thought it was worth stealing.  That could be very 
revealing.  If it is full of uncommented tricky-tricky stunts, that would 
tell me something worth knowing.  That and maybe a 'find the program that 
contains this string and tell me what it does' kind of hands-on test.  We 
shall see.  Thanks, Lance
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