I agree with you.Now I'm not trying to beat up on new programmers, but old farts like myself tend to like to teach others, but only if they are willing to learn. Just giving code away is not teaching (or learning). Is this just me getting old or has the "I want it now" attitude become normal in the new breed, and how is that going to affect the future of programming?
In the future there will be no programmers. We will simply speak to a robot and describe what we want and 5 seconds later our program will be coded, debugged, and wrapped for production...
KitCarlson said:My success has been much due to a virtual play ground in my mind. I do my best work there, not on paper, not on the computer
This is a complex subject and I don't feel very comfortable to make generalities. I'm speaking only of the professional developpers that I met (or worked with in open source projects). And I agree with scientists saying that we lose our open-mindedness with age because we have more certainties (they are reassuring and convince us that we understand the world around us) and more routines. It's more and more difficult to search new ways of doing especially when we know at least a good way. We can be so used to a particular way that we want to go quicker by repeating what we know, without even considering there could be a better way. Young people has a strong advantage in this matter as everything is new and uncertain. And I'm not convinced that young people, coming from the universities, will become worse programmers than those who learned everything on the job, a few decades earlier. The difference between them and me is mainly experience. They come with a different way of thinking, more scientific and more theoretical, but the job will always require to find solutions to problems and if they are reluctant to learn, not curious, etc., will they work for a long time in this profession?Not at all, informatix.. I think you are right.. and if there is one thing to add, it is that, old programmers, in general, are more open-minded
to more ways of solutions than younger ones, because new programmers learned a finite way or algorithms to solve different kind of problems,
while the older ones depend on their accumulated experience and determination to solve about any kind of problem in more different ways.
modern colleges classes teach you how to program, how to make mistakes and how to solve them, so they didn't leave any space for you mind
to free thinking. That's why if a problem that was not in the curriculum is encountered then questions start filling the forums.
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