Levels of programmers (2009)
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Levels of programmers (2009)
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Re: Levels of programmers (2009)
#2I am currently an average programmer, as judged by this scale.
Re: Levels of programmers (2009)
#3This doesn't make any sense unless (even if?) you read the version that he's spoofing. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7art.htm
He's just replaced some of the words; the result makes no sense.
Re: Levels of programmers (2009)
#4not everyone wants to be a "Rockstar Programmer!!!11!!"
I want to know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it and why it works or doesn't work.
I don't want to be a rockstar, I want to be confident in my current abilities and in my ability to always learn more.
Re: Levels of programmers (2009)
#5I am currently an average programmer, as judged by this scale.
It seems to me that average programmer and working programmer overlap quite a bit. I might never be a great programmer but there are still plenty of jobs out there I can do well as an average programmer and I always have work.
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#6I'm quite glad he says "tongue firmly planted in cheek", because the idea that a successful programmers are "Programmers who are both well known and have created entire businesses – perhaps even whole industries – around their code." is just plain silly.
I think what he means by success is "money", which might well work for him, but doesn't for many others.
Re: Levels of programmers (2009)
#7Knuth isn't dead.
Re: Levels of programmers (2009)
#8Knuth isn't dead.
I guess that falls under Very few programmers ever achieve this level in their own lifetimes.
It's still bad, though.
Re: Levels of programmers (2009)
#9This doesn't make any sense unless (even if?) you read the version that he's spoofing. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7art.htm He's just replaced some of the words; the result makes no sense.
But then Ken Rockwell has made rather a career out of making little sense himself, so a parody almost needs to be entirely self-contradictory in order to register as a parody. (Basic JPEG on a D70 is good enough for anybody, but you really do need a Hasselblad. Er, come again Ken? I have to fix photographers who try to believe everything he writes.)
Re: Levels of programmers (2009)
#10My guesses on how to be a Level 1 programmer based on the examples:Do a lot of Math and stay in academia.