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  • #32
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Often people's coding at home is dabbling and relying on what people have taught themselves for fun, for a production piece of software is not a good idea.

    - Kevin

    Hmmm. I can see where you're coming from there, but a lot of the code I write at home is in languages that I already know(i.e. vb and java). Now if I started coding in delphi my code wouldn't be production standard but it would be a lot better than a newbie's code. I have the experience to know between good and bad. :cool:

    However, dabbling at home is a good way to get the proverbial foot in the door of a new skill. Hopefully you'll then start to get paid to improve.


  • #33
    p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    Originally posted by Trojan
    Hey P! Just want to clear up a some confusion!
    Here's where we go off-track: yes, the company should train me, but no training course is going to teach me what hours of coding at home will. If I undergo their training alone, I will probably be able to do my job, and that's great.

    But I am in charge of my own career, including making myself look good for advancement, for getting on good projects, and making myself look as attractive a hire as possible. I need to develop skills and update with new technologies as much as possible. Coding at home lets me do that.

    Oh yea,
    I agree with you there.
    There's nothing wrong with someone doing that.
    Companies shouldn't rely on the person who's dabbled with PHP to write a content management system for example. He/she should be trained up or someone else should be brought in unless they can show adequate campability.

    Also don't forget that a lot of open source stuff is production quality, and most of it was written in the days before corporations starting sponsoring it.. it was the hackers at home.

    Well yea,
    I don't think most things people do would be to that same quality though.

    - Kevin


  • #34
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Here's a step in the right direction :)

    http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,63323,00.asp


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