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Re: My teacher made this comment, what did he mean?
08/10/07 02:22 AM
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> > > I just finished with a C, so this is really a two part question... My teacher > said > > > that we are lucky and will probably never have to write a piece of code in our > > > life... What did he mean by that? And by getting a B in C, does that = certified > C > > > programmer? Or do I have to get my AA, before I'm certified C, or is there some > > Exam > > > I still must take? > > > > Since software engineering is unregulated (unlike civil engineering, for example), > > there is no such thing as a certified C programmer. You just have to convince a > > potential employer that you can do what they want. As to never writing a line of > > code, maybe he thinks you'll be a "software architect" or something like that, and > > just make abstract designs that you had off to teams of developers to implement... > > Thanks for your trouble that was excellent help, please don't mind a follow up > question... > > He said he had a student who saved functions or something and the advantage of this > he was hired by UPS for some huge contract at about 100,000 or more, then he was > contracted by mattel to keep making these tracking programs... What did he mean by > this kid saving code, and reusing he was talking in this line when he was referring > to never writing code...
It's true - re-use of code will get you a long way. There are a lot of commodity applications these days - applications that do essentially the same thing as each other. A lot of the time you can take a piece of code that almost does what you want and just slightly change it to suit your exact needs - copy and paste programming. This can also get people into trouble when they start with code that isn't really suitable to begin with.
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