[Purdue-pm] Picking a programmer

[Bradley Andersen]

+problem solving
+cs knowledge

specific language does not matter.

/bda from yapc::eu in sunny bulgaria

:)




On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Rick Westerman <westerman at purdue.edu>
wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I think it's important that the person can communicate well. They need
> > to be able to work with other people to understand the content of the
> > programming task, the motivation, the impact, the users, etc. They
> > also
> > need to be able to document their code, if you want a really high
> > quality product.
>
> Communications would be my #1 criteria.   Without the ability to
> communicate then you won't get good internal code comments nor external
> documentation.  The daily status reports will basically be a grunt.  The
> programmer will not listen to nor clarify customer comments, complaints and
> suggestions.  All of those behaviors can be enforced however you won't get
> *good* results unless the programmer can actually communicate.
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/21/14, 11:11 AM, derrick wrote:
> > > I'll throw out the ideas of:
> > >
> > > 1. problem solving
> > > 2. curiosity
> > > 3. creativity
> > >
> > > I'm interested in curiosity and creativity because requirements for
> > > projects are rarely well defined with first given. There ends up
> > > being
> > > a few revisions/clarifications as each side interprets them. Being
> > > able to figure out what people really want and tease out the use
> > > cases
> > > seems to be more of an art than a science.
> > >
> > > Understanding multiple programming paradigms (functional,
> > > procedural,
> > > object oriented, vector) is more interesting to me than knowing
> > > multiple languages. I feel that language is a lot about knowing the
> > > correct syntax, a little about understanding peculiarities between
> > > languages. Knowing how to think through a problem using a paradigm
> > > allows you to approach a problem from many angles, weighing the
> > > benefits of each.
> > >
> > > dsk
> > >
> > >
> > > On 08/20/2014 11:29 AM, Ken mcNamara wrote:
> > >> If you needed to hire a programmer for an important project...
> > >>
> > >> What do you look for?
> > >>
> > >> Multiple languages?
> > >>
> > >> System agnostic?
> > >>
> > >> Prefers programming to eating/sleeping?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> What qualities make a good programmer?
> > >>
> > >> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> > >>
> > >> KenMc
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