Dave’s Top Programming Resources

This isn’t going to be a top ten list.  I don’t think I have ten programming resources that I use on a regular basis.  Instead let’s just call this Dave’s Top Programming Resources that Dave can’t live without now that they are on his hard drive.

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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Do Programmers even NEED a degree?

Well, this post yesterday, really got  things going in blog-o-sphere.  Shoot!  Even Joel Spolsky got involved.  I saw another post, but I’m sorry to say, I can’t find it right now.

The original article put forth the idea that we are teaching the right stuff in our undergraduate Computer science degree programs.

Joel’s article suggested that what we really need is a bachelor of fine arts program for programmers.  That programming, and computer science are really two entirely different disciplines.

I think Joel’s onto something and his solution is probably the closest to what our current educational system can handle.  But, I have another solution to the problem that goes further. (more…)

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

The Evolution of a Programmer

This is almost true.  I think the season’d programmer would actually get back to writing as little code as possible prior to being middle management.  But, it’s still pretty funny.

The Evolution of a Programmer

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Friday, November 9th, 2007