by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday November 30, 2015 @04:48PM (#51029283)
Or are they just perfecting COPY / PASTE?
1) Google "How do I do X in Y?"
2) Click result in position #1
3) COPY
4) PASTE
5) GOTO 1
Fifteen years ago I worked projects where I had the luxury of really diving into one language or technology and mastering it. Now every project has a huge set of completely new platforms, languages, libraries, buzzwords, etc, and I'm expected to hit the ground running on day one.
So, yeah, I'll google "jquery change combobox options", open the first hit (usually Stack Exchange), copy-paste-test-commit. Bam. Next search, "less css inherit", copy-paste-test-commit. "iBatis map jodatime", copy-paste-test-commit. "Spring mockito tomcat autowire", copy-paste-test-commit. Over and over and over.
Often I don't even know how it works. It just has to get done by morning scrum.
Do people actually learn to code anymore? (Score:2)
Or are they just perfecting COPY / PASTE?
1) Google "How do I do X in Y?"
2) Click result in position #1
3) COPY
4) PASTE
5) GOTO 1
Re:Do people actually learn to code anymore? (Score:1)
Or are they just perfecting COPY / PASTE?
1) Google "How do I do X in Y?"
2) Click result in position #1
3) COPY
4) PASTE
5) GOTO 1
Fifteen years ago I worked projects where I had the luxury of really diving into one language or technology and mastering it. Now every project has a huge set of completely new platforms, languages, libraries, buzzwords, etc, and I'm expected to hit the ground running on day one.
So, yeah, I'll google "jquery change combobox options", open the first hit (usually Stack Exchange), copy-paste-test-commit. Bam. Next search, "less css inherit", copy-paste-test-commit. "iBatis map jodatime", copy-paste-test-commit. "Spring mockito tomcat autowire", copy-paste-test-commit. Over and over and over.
Often I don't even know how it works. It just has to get done by morning scrum.