satire: PSYCHOLOGY OF CODING STANDARDS
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Hey all, I wrote up and I sent this list of classes to my HR guy as a joke, asking if I could take these classes instead of the useless company offerred ones ("The Leader In All Of Us" etc)... AND HE SAID YES THEY LOOK INTERESTING!! !HA HA HA HA Here's the list. Enjoy... - Carlos PY 502 - INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY OF CODING STANDARDS Credits: 3.00 Introduction to the world of coding standards; why some programmers go psychotic about setting tabs to 3.5 spaces while others prefer to use one space everywhere with no CR/LFs. Learn how to diagnose mental disorder by reading code comments as if they were animal droppings on the hiking trail. Three hours lecture each week. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 516 - CUBICAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Why cubical dwelling programmers often make the worst humans, and what you can do to help them. In depth dissection of : cubical layout and what it says about the programmer; the link between cubical beige color and depression; cubical size and the mental stewardship of the owning company; cubical warrens and their infectious ennui. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: 8.00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 402 - PSYCHOLOGY OF TAG READER CODE Credits: 3.00 Introduction to the insane, Escher-like minefields of tag reader source code. Research methods of psychology, including such topics as biological bases of bugs, bug development, bug perception, bug learning, mental disorder of programmers, and bug social behavior. Student MUST bring their own hip-wader boots. (BSSD) Assessment levels: EN 101/101A, MA 100, RD 110. Three hours lecture each week. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 548 - PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS Credits: 3.00 Managing software programmers has often been described as being as easy as "Herding 1000 Cats". This class will discuss programmers' tendencies to avoid teamwork and how teams affected glorious engineering efforts such as the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge, the Tower of Babel, the Leaning tower of Pisa, and the united states tax code. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 101 - BUNKER MENTALITY OF SURVIVING SIX LAYOFFS IN A YEAR Credits: 3.00 Pretty much self-descriptive. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology
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Hey all, I wrote up and I sent this list of classes to my HR guy as a joke, asking if I could take these classes instead of the useless company offerred ones ("The Leader In All Of Us" etc)... AND HE SAID YES THEY LOOK INTERESTING!! !HA HA HA HA Here's the list. Enjoy... - Carlos PY 502 - INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY OF CODING STANDARDS Credits: 3.00 Introduction to the world of coding standards; why some programmers go psychotic about setting tabs to 3.5 spaces while others prefer to use one space everywhere with no CR/LFs. Learn how to diagnose mental disorder by reading code comments as if they were animal droppings on the hiking trail. Three hours lecture each week. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 516 - CUBICAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Why cubical dwelling programmers often make the worst humans, and what you can do to help them. In depth dissection of : cubical layout and what it says about the programmer; the link between cubical beige color and depression; cubical size and the mental stewardship of the owning company; cubical warrens and their infectious ennui. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: 8.00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 402 - PSYCHOLOGY OF TAG READER CODE Credits: 3.00 Introduction to the insane, Escher-like minefields of tag reader source code. Research methods of psychology, including such topics as biological bases of bugs, bug development, bug perception, bug learning, mental disorder of programmers, and bug social behavior. Student MUST bring their own hip-wader boots. (BSSD) Assessment levels: EN 101/101A, MA 100, RD 110. Three hours lecture each week. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 548 - PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS Credits: 3.00 Managing software programmers has often been described as being as easy as "Herding 1000 Cats". This class will discuss programmers' tendencies to avoid teamwork and how teams affected glorious engineering efforts such as the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge, the Tower of Babel, the Leaning tower of Pisa, and the united states tax code. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 101 - BUNKER MENTALITY OF SURVIVING SIX LAYOFFS IN A YEAR Credits: 3.00 Pretty much self-descriptive. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology
Codin` Carlos wrote: This class will discuss programmers' tendencies to avoid teamwork and how teams affected glorious engineering efforts such as the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge, the Tower of Babel, the Leaning tower of Pisa, and the united states tax code. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology :laugh: :laugh: Is Montgomery College by any chance located in Montgomery County Maryland? That's where I live, I should take some of those classes.[
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Hey all, I wrote up and I sent this list of classes to my HR guy as a joke, asking if I could take these classes instead of the useless company offerred ones ("The Leader In All Of Us" etc)... AND HE SAID YES THEY LOOK INTERESTING!! !HA HA HA HA Here's the list. Enjoy... - Carlos PY 502 - INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY OF CODING STANDARDS Credits: 3.00 Introduction to the world of coding standards; why some programmers go psychotic about setting tabs to 3.5 spaces while others prefer to use one space everywhere with no CR/LFs. Learn how to diagnose mental disorder by reading code comments as if they were animal droppings on the hiking trail. Three hours lecture each week. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 516 - CUBICAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Why cubical dwelling programmers often make the worst humans, and what you can do to help them. In depth dissection of : cubical layout and what it says about the programmer; the link between cubical beige color and depression; cubical size and the mental stewardship of the owning company; cubical warrens and their infectious ennui. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: 8.00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 402 - PSYCHOLOGY OF TAG READER CODE Credits: 3.00 Introduction to the insane, Escher-like minefields of tag reader source code. Research methods of psychology, including such topics as biological bases of bugs, bug development, bug perception, bug learning, mental disorder of programmers, and bug social behavior. Student MUST bring their own hip-wader boots. (BSSD) Assessment levels: EN 101/101A, MA 100, RD 110. Three hours lecture each week. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 548 - PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS Credits: 3.00 Managing software programmers has often been described as being as easy as "Herding 1000 Cats". This class will discuss programmers' tendencies to avoid teamwork and how teams affected glorious engineering efforts such as the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge, the Tower of Babel, the Leaning tower of Pisa, and the united states tax code. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology PY 101 - BUNKER MENTALITY OF SURVIVING SIX LAYOFFS IN A YEAR Credits: 3.00 Pretty much self-descriptive. Lecture: 3.00 Lab: .00 Other: .00 College: Montgomery College Department: Soc-Psychology
Learn how to take advantage of split-personality disorder when your hackers have 20 simultaneous projects! Actually, I consider the combination of a semi-controllable split personality with a tendency to paranoia as the major prerequisite to writing threadsafe code.
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