MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: My teacher made this comment, what did he mean?

> > > 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.