Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day 306
whyloginwhysubscribe writes "The usually excellent BBC 'Click' programme has an article on 'Why computer code is the new language to learn' — which features a company in London who offer courses on learning to code in a day. The BBC clip has an interesting interview with a marketing director who, it seems to me, is going to go back and tell his programmers to speed up because otherwise he could do it himself! Decoded.co's testimonials page is particularly funny: 'I really feel like I could talk credibly to a coder, given we can now actually speak the same language.'"
Re:A little knowledge... (Score:2, Funny)
Well, just tell the boss that the dwim feature of your compiler is broken, and you must work around it.
"Hello World!!!" (Score:4, Funny)
Re:language != logic (Score:5, Funny)
Incidentally, why doing you programmers just prove that your algorithms will never hang before shipping code? Are you lazy or something?
Few programmers are computer scientists, just as few slashdot users being grammarians.
Re:language != logic (Score:5, Funny)
just as few slashdot users being grammarians.
I fail to see how religion enters into this.
Re:A little knowledge... (Score:5, Funny)
If coding can be learned in a day, why do we have people who suck so badly at it?
Because they learned it in a day?
I can write that code! (Score:5, Funny)
Hire me. Just pay me 10% more than the rest of your team combined but I will deliver the code you need within 24 hours.
And I only have 2 requirements.
1. It does not have to work.
2. I do not have to maintain it.
WRITING code is easy.
Mandatory Code Monkey quote (Score:5, Funny)
Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself
Code Monkey not say it out loud
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud
Re:language != logic (Score:5, Funny)
I fail to see how religion enters into this.
Emacs vs vi.
Meanwhile (Score:4, Funny)
Meanwhile, us programmers don't need to take a "Management in 1 day" training. We develop translators: http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html [atrixnet.com]
Re:Mod parent up (Score:5, Funny)
Code monkey think maybe manager wanna write goddamn login page himself.
Code monkey don't say it out loud.
Code monkey not crazy, just proud.
I'd rather go with the 6 minute abs. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:language != logic (Score:5, Funny)
I think that's a mis-reference to the Halting Problem if so. It's not (always) hard to prove that a given algorithm will terminate. It's just not possible to do it generically, and that doesn't sound like what he was suggesting.
I think that's a misunderstanding of the Joking Problem. It's not (always) hard to prove that a given post was intended for humorous effect and thus could get away with not being exactly correct.
It often runs into the Pedant Problem, which is sort of the geek version of code refusing to run if it contains the slightest error.
Re:language != logic (Score:4, Funny)
The answer to that question is: Lets find out.
Re:language != logic (Score:4, Funny)
No problem: 50% up front.
Hey, if you've done 6 impossible things before breakfast ...
Re:A little knowledge... (Score:4, Funny)
The one who thinks that, just because it is 2012, all our IT will automagically upgrade itself without the required investments, and that we will leave all our legacy systems because they are "not cool"
Oh, and the one that the issue will be resolved by arguing with me instead of arguing with the boss of the boss of the boss .... of my boss.
No, No, No, You've Got It All Wrong (Score:5, Funny)
"learn ... in ten easy minutes
Screw learning. With my new Sarah Palin Voyage of Self-Discovery and the Christian Buddha, you'll discover that you always knew the answers in your heart all along. Trying to become some so-called "expert" by doing things like "studying" just makes you an elite egghead who gets all wishy-washy when it comes to the truthiness of anything.
You already know the answer, and you know that you do! Don't let those gosh-darned experts tell you any different!
Act now, and we'll bonus you with the Anthony Robbins method "Solve Any Problem in Three Easy Steps!"
Step One: It's not a problem. It's a challenge!
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Re:language != logic (Score:5, Funny)
You haven't taken the ESP class yet?
Re:language != logic (Score:5, Funny)
Marketing's reply: Through the use of social disruptive crowd-sourced adaptive technology that curates and refines user-generated data like never before. Obviously.
Re:language != logic (Score:5, Funny)