Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site srcsip.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!mmm!srcsip!meier From: meier@srcsip.UUCP (Christopher Meier) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Titles Message-ID: <3890@srcsip.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 00:30:38 EST Article-I.D.: srcsip.3890 Posted: Mon Feb 24 00:30:38 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 22:20:09 EST References: <4514@kestrel.ARPA> <3407@nsc.UUCP> <276@sdcc7.UUCP> <499@tekig5.UUCP> Reply-To: meier@srcsip.UUCP (Christopher Meier) Organization: Honeywell SRC (SIP), Mpls MN Lines: 40 >> > A random hacker grade programmer of high school age is worth 5 brand new >> > CS degree-oids. Can you state what this comparison is based on? >> > Note that ALL the awesomely hot programmers I know do not have degrees. What makes someone an awesomely hot programmer? >> understood more about computers you would know what a "hot" >> programmer really is. Come on, a high school programmer? >> You can't tell me some kid playing at home with his Apple knows >> more about computers than someone with a degree. Being able to >> program a video game does not make a Computer Scientist. > Sorry, Harry, I have to agree with Curt. If the kid is like my son, > who has just started High School. He spent part of his 8th grade > year teaching his programming teacher some new tricks. - he tricked > his teacher and then told him later about what he had done.- The > school even gave him a certificate for his achievements. He had been > helping the other kids in class. > You have to understand though... He has been into comuters for over > 5 years. No, he doesn't program in C yet, but he does work with > machine code, as well as basic. > > No, he could not come close to the level of a Professor who has been > teaching for several years, but just wait 'til he finishes high school... and college, so that he can do more than just hack out tricky programs... > > >> > curt >> harry, >> A pissed off college student. > Annadiana Beaver Sorry A.B., I agree with Harry. When I was a freshman in HS, I was helping the juniors and seniors with their assignments. I even co-developed a DBMS for my HS. But a Computer Scientist I wasn't. Maybe these kids who are considered to be 'hot programmers' can whip up 'neat' programs or 'tricky' ones, but that's about all the programs are, and it does not make them worth someone with a CS degree. -- US-SNAIL: Usenet:{philabs,ihnp4!umn-cs}!srcsip!meier Christopher Meier MN17-2357 Honeywell, Inc. Systems & Research Center 2600 Ridgeway Pky. Artificial Intelligence Technology Mpls, MN 55413 Signal & Image Processing