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From: skrone@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (stuart.krone)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Practical Training
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.182251.9708@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 18:22:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.192303.8772@auto-trol.com>
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In article <1991Jun4.192303.8772@auto-trol.com> alesha@auto-trol.com (Alec Sharp) writes:
>
>I am planning to introduce some formal training for the software
>developers in our business unit here and would like information on
>things that have worked for you.
>
>I'm interested in hands-on training, where developers are given a
>problem to solve, and to solve it well will have to use certain design
>and coding techniques, the ones that the particular lesson is about.
>
>After the hands on part, there would be discussion about the
>approaches and their advantages and disadvantages.
>
>My initial interest is in high-level and low level design, but I'm
>also interested in anything that can help our developers increase
>their skill level.
>
>Has anyone done anything like this?  Does anyone know of any
>consultants who will come in and organize/train us on this type
>of thing?  Does anyone know of public domain lessons/examples we could
>do this with?
>
>thanks,
>
>Alec Sharp
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When I first started working for AT&T they sent me to a class
called Initial Designer Training. It's 8 hours a day, five days
a week for 3 months. You take a final exam which lasts two
weeks and it's pass/fire. The final consists of debugging a
program and writting one.

This may be more involved than you are interested in however,
it may be a good model to start with.

If you are interested send e-mail and I'll dig up more info.

Stu

These views are mine, not AT&T's, but they are available for rent