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,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2080eb40d5b08371 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: edabobojr@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Ada Skill Assessments Date: 1999/07/01 Message-ID: <7lgtt1$s28$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 496181927 References: <7lgb74$kob$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x22.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 162.42.246.34 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jul 01 23:33:53 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT) Date: 1999-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7lgb74$kob$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Joe Wisniewski wrote: > Has there been any serious discussions of this issue as it relates > to Ada skill assessments? > > (I'll answer my own question :--) ) > > Among the last several "Ada clients" for which I have done work, > I am seeing, in general, a degradation of skilled Ada talent. Now, > upon closer analysis, the "actual" skills that I am seeing "lacking" > may or may not be due to one or more of the following: > > over-influx of "young talent" (Refer to previous posts on c.l.a. > wrt "Looking for Jr. Ada people") > > general lack of engineering skills > > lack of OO training/experience > > lack of _effective_ Ada training/experience > I was wondering how you would recommend the "young talent" develop their Ada skills. After using Ada throughout college I took a position in another language and am interested in developing my abilities to possibly become a competent Ada programmer for later jobs. Any input or recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.