Alexis Lee wrote:
Neill Newman wrote:
I can't speak for the majority, but in my experience the best programmers are engineers, not CS students..
This is probably because the engineers you know have many years of field experience, whereas the CS students generally have up to 3.
nope, I was speaking purely as an observer of EE students and CS students at university.
I would suggest that a 10 year engineer would lose versus a CS student with a first or 2:1 and 7 years experience. 2:2 and under is not very impressive, on my course anyway. But then I have considerably more background than most people.
I don't agree with that, a friend got a 3rd, and I consider him way above me in most things (yeah that's you bing ;) In my opinion, just because someone has a degree dosen't mean they have more experience/knowledge than somebody else. Some of the most knowledgeable people I know didn't go to uni. The best programmer I have had the pleasure of working with used to defuse bombs in the gulf war.. and could totally run rings around me when coding....
imho of course ;) Sz
Alexis
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