Professional programmer - When?
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When do you call yourself a professional programmer? Are You a professional programmer? Are you a professional... ... when you know the language full out? ... when you know much about ATL, COM, SOAP, .NET etc. etc. etc... Short: When you know much about different technologies ... when you don't need so much help like before? ... when someone say to you that you are a professional? :) Well, what is your opinium about this? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
I can make two suggestions: 1. It's when you start developing code thinking of how others might use it effectively. 2. It's the point at which you are finally content to call yourself "just" a programmer. You usually arrive at this point *after* you've called yourself, at various points in your career, a programmer, then a developer, then an analyst/programmer then a software engineer and then a technical architect. Please note that if anyone is offended that I have ranked analyst/programmer above a developer, then you've missed the point :) "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."
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Paul Watson wrote: Oh god, he is French AND a wannabe artist. God help us all... Nutnutnut... your remark gives me a poor idea of the level of education in South Africa ;P Neve heard or read the names of Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz, Manet, Renoir, Delacroix, Rodin, Bartholdi, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard ? Paul Watson wrote: So by definition you must suffer for your art, and only make money off it once you are dead. Sweet deal If my target was to work to be rich, I would be a marketing guy :-D (My moral forbids that :))
I hurt so bad inside I wish you could see the world through my eyes It stays the same I just wanna laugh again
KaЯl wrote: Neve heard or read the names of Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz, Manet, Renoir, Delacroix, Rodin, Bartholdi, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard ? Damn, I hoped you were going to say Chopin as well, at which point, I would've taken great delight at pointing out the fact that he was, in fact, Polish. Incidentally, did you know Debussy died of rectal cancer? :( "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."
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When do you call yourself a professional programmer? Are You a professional programmer? Are you a professional... ... when you know the language full out? ... when you know much about ATL, COM, SOAP, .NET etc. etc. etc... Short: When you know much about different technologies ... when you don't need so much help like before? ... when someone say to you that you are a professional? :) Well, what is your opinium about this? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
I've never called myself a "Professional" anything...it's just a label, and labels are something that have caused me pain in the past. Likewise letters after my name don't bother me either. Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be"
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Paul Watson wrote: Oh god, he is French AND a wannabe artist. God help us all... Nutnutnut... your remark gives me a poor idea of the level of education in South Africa ;P Neve heard or read the names of Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz, Manet, Renoir, Delacroix, Rodin, Bartholdi, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard ? Paul Watson wrote: So by definition you must suffer for your art, and only make money off it once you are dead. Sweet deal If my target was to work to be rich, I would be a marketing guy :-D (My moral forbids that :))
I hurt so bad inside I wish you could see the world through my eyes It stays the same I just wanna laugh again
KaЯl wrote: Nutnutnut... :laugh: I must find a reason to use this often :cool:
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
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KaЯl wrote: Neve heard or read the names of Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz, Manet, Renoir, Delacroix, Rodin, Bartholdi, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard ? Damn, I hoped you were going to say Chopin as well, at which point, I would've taken great delight at pointing out the fact that he was, in fact, Polish. Incidentally, did you know Debussy died of rectal cancer? :( "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."
phykell wrote: did you know Debussy died of rectal cancer? I guess you could say he got his in the end. :~ BW "Computers are useless. They only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
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KaЯl wrote: Nutnutnut... :laugh: I must find a reason to use this often :cool:
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
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phykell wrote: did you know Debussy died of rectal cancer? I guess you could say he got his in the end. :~ BW "Computers are useless. They only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
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...and that he was a PITA anyway. "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."
:laugh: BW "Computers are useless. They only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
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When do you call yourself a professional programmer? Are You a professional programmer? Are you a professional... ... when you know the language full out? ... when you know much about ATL, COM, SOAP, .NET etc. etc. etc... Short: When you know much about different technologies ... when you don't need so much help like before? ... when someone say to you that you are a professional? :) Well, what is your opinium about this? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
You're a professional when it's your profession, that is, when someone pays you to do it. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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I'm not sure that professional necessarily is equal to good (although it should be!) As far as I've always understood it - in any field, not just programming - you are a professional once you start getting paid for the particular skill. As I said, unfortunately this doesn't necessarily mean you are good, but if you aren't good at the skill, this state of being probably won't last too long :)
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some-it won't hurt you'... -Christian Graus on Code Project outages His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to he wall**-Shaun Wilde**
Megan Forbes wrote: in any field, not just programming - you are a professional once you start getting paid for the particular skill. Agreed, I'd modify it to "A professional is one who pays tax, based on reciepts from programming work". Most programmers are employed programmers, rather than professionals. Regardz Colin J Davies
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