Originally posted here by dinowuff
Ah Shoot. too many TLA's now days.

Noia said it best.

More and more I see applicants that either got their degree/training from the back of a match book cover, or just learned how to pass a test.

I am in no way a developer. Give me a blank screen and an idea... Not going to happen. Give me frame work and existing code, I can fix what's broken or add-on.


My point here is learn how to program. Not how to program with some utility/package.
I think that's exactly right. I started programming a little more than three years ago (still learning, btw), and I remember how difficult it was to *really know* how to go about solving a problem. The language was the easy part. It wasn't until maybe about a year ago that the "I know how to solve the problem with code" part really kicked in. The syntax is easy, knowing how to use the operators, the logic, the objects, the methods / functions...is easy. But to be given a problem and know how to best *use* the code to solve the problem / complete the task...is the hard part.