Like This Site? 
 
RSS Feed Follow Us 

on Twitter! Be Our Fan!

Lost programming skills

Share this post!
 Vote this!

What today's coders don't know does hurt, and picking the wrong shortcut will set your project back. Software engineers reveal the poor programming habits they're seeing on the job.

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a Drupal extension, create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and run DOOM on their car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there's a lot that their predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

Some of these skills aren't likely to be needed again, any more than most of us need to know how to ride a horse or (sigh) drive a manual-transmission vehicle. But other skills and "lessons learned" may still or again prove relevant, whether developers are banging their heads against legacy systems, coding for new mobile and embedded devices... or other devices and applications we haven't yet thought of.     More...

0 comments:

Post a Comment