[Brett "Grad Boy" Cannon] > ... > And when I got CVS access I was scared out of my wits of touching > other people's code and applied patches. Now I have managed to do > that, fix my own broken code, and cause several tests to fail and > break other people's code. As you can tell I am still working on > this one. =) This is normal, and a good sign. I've only worked for two companies that had any concept of "career development" (beyond just tolerating it when they couldn't stop it <0.5 wink>), and in those it was always true that a new college-grad hire was useless until they lost their fear of breaking the code. It's like the human body that way: we learn a lot more about how it works by studying disease than by admiring a perfect specimen. It's only when the guts spill out all over the floor that you can learn what all those misshapen juicy bits *really* do. > I know there is no way I would be anywhere near the level of coder > that I am now if it was not for everyone on this list. You all have > given me almost every major personal programming achievement in my > life. I feel like I can call myself a programmer now thanks to all > of you. Sorry, not a chance: you're not a real programmer until your arrogance has put at least one startup out of business <wink>. working-on-my-fifth-but-i'm-old-ly y'rs - tim
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