From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/11 Message-ID: <68B549ABC548EB31.1A5D1AC419F12C2C.501C3F7CD9C134D9@library-proxy.airnews.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240793403 References: <3374A3F6.6C2@DIE_SPAMMER.dasd.honeywell.com> X-Orig-Message-ID: <337a36a2.2371606@news.airmail.net> Organization: INTERNET AMERICA X-A-Notice: References line has been trimmed due to 512 byte limitation NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Apa wrote: >Kevin Cline wrote: >> > >> I'm not recommending that you read textbooks. I'm thinking of books like >> "Design Patterns", by Gamma et. al, "Peopleware" by DeMarco and somebody, >> or "Debugging the Development Process" by McGuire. >> >> One book a month is one hour per week. Probably less time than you spend >> reading and posting to newsgroups. > >You must read much faster than anyone I know. I just worked my way >through Jacobson's book. No way to understand it if you spend only 4 >hours a month. I read pretty fast, but agree that four hours per volume is not enough for many books. The important thing is for new professionals to realize that they must take the responsibility to ensure that stay marketable. It's really sad to interview someone looking to work on a C++ project and find out that all they know is what they learned in a week-long course provided by their employer two years ago.