http://www.eire.com/2006/teaching-programmers-java-and-joel/ Government, Infrastructure, Business Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:06:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.eire.com/2006/teaching-programmers-java-and-joel/comment-page-1/#comment-25953 belendo Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:42:43 +0000 http://www.eire.com/2006/01/01/teaching-programmers-java-and-joel/#comment-25953 I am totally new on this whole thing of programming. I barely know how to build a loop. But it seems to me that, as in any other areas, all comes to use the tool that suits your objectives best. Once you know what you want to do (ant this is the difficult part!), it should be fairly straight forward to figure out what kind of programming language you should use. You wouldn't use a saucepan to cook a Spanish tortilla, and you wouldn't use a frying pan to boil some soup. Of couse it is a simple way to put it, but sometimes we tend to forget the basics. Once you get to this point, it is really important to have big brains who can program C, but also professionals who can program java or write scripts and have enough empathy to make things simple and user friendly. And most of the times big brains are to the detriment of empathy, I'm afraid! I am totally new on this whole thing of programming. I barely know how to build a loop. But it seems to me that, as in any other areas, all comes to use the tool that suits your objectives best. Once you know what you want to do (ant this is the difficult part!), it should be fairly straight forward to figure out what kind of programming language you should use. You wouldn’t use a saucepan to cook a Spanish tortilla, and you wouldn’t use a frying pan to boil some soup. Of couse it is a simple way to put it, but sometimes we tend to forget the basics. Once you get to this point, it is really important to have big brains who can program C, but also professionals who can program java or write scripts and have enough empathy to make things simple and user friendly. And most of the times big brains are to the detriment of empathy, I’m afraid!

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