Re: ANY(ONE can code

Date	2025-08-22 20:52 -0400
Subject	Re: ANY(ONE can code
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
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From	bitrex <user@example.net>
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On 8/19/2025 3:19 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> On 19/08/2025 1:47 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:19:35 -0700, Don Y
>> <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/11/2025 5:12 AM, BillGill wrote:
>>>> On 8/10/2025 9:27 AM, Don Y wrote:
>>>>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs- 
>>>>> students.html>
>>>>>
>>>>> And you wonder why your job is going away?  Hopefully, the end of
>>>>> "Programmer" -- as a job description -- is just around the corner!
>>>> I keep seeing that kids in high school (or even earlier) are being
>>>> taught to code.  But then I have to wonder just what level of coding
>>>> that is. Do they actually learn programming, or do they just learn
>>>> to put together a bunch of stuff to create apps?
>>
>> I meet CE/EE grads who don't know what a state machine is. Much less a
>> software state machine.
> 
> We had that trouble with Cambridge graduates. They knew their stuff, but 
> if you didn't ask the question using exactly the right jargon, they 
> didn't know what you meant. If you beat around the bush for a bit you 
> could mostly get them talking, but some of them were addicted to their 
> specialist jargon, and wouldn't condescend to talk to people who didn't 
> use it.
> 

If it can't be solved with a state machine or Laplace transform I'm out 
of ideas

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ANY(ONE can code Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2025-08-10 07:27 -0700
  Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-11 02:09 +1000
  Re: ANY(ONE can code BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com> - 2025-08-11 07:12 -0500
    Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-11 07:22 -0700
    Re: ANY(ONE can code Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2025-08-11 07:27 -0700
      Re: ANYONE can code Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2025-08-11 07:46 -0700
      Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-11 08:50 -0700
        Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-12 03:32 +1000
          Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-11 16:19 -0700
            Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-12 16:19 +1000
              Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-12 07:37 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-13 15:28 +1000
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-17 02:17 +1000
                Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-16 13:40 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-17 14:35 +1000
                Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-17 08:31 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-18 02:47 +1000
                Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-17 10:23 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-18 21:08 +1000
                Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-18 07:10 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2025-08-18 10:57 -0400
                Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-18 08:44 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2025-08-22 09:54 +0200
                Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-22 07:39 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2025-08-22 17:21 +0200
                Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-22 08:47 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-19 17:12 +1000
                Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-19 04:09 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-20 00:53 +1000
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2025-08-22 10:45 +0200
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2025-08-22 02:14 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2025-08-22 11:41 +0000
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> - 2025-08-22 09:44 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2025-08-22 09:37 +0200
    Re: ANY(ONE can code Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2025-08-11 12:19 -0700
      Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-18 08:47 -0700
        Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-19 17:19 +1000
          Re: ANY(ONE can code bitrex <user@example.net> - 2025-08-22 20:52 -0400
        Re: ANY(ONE can code Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2025-08-22 10:57 +0200
          Re: ANY(ONE can code Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2025-08-22 02:18 -0700
            Re: ANY(ONE can code Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2025-08-22 11:39 +0200
              Re: ANY(ONE can code Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2025-08-22 03:09 -0700
                Re: ANY(ONE can code Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2025-08-22 11:51 -0700
            Re: ANY(ONE can code john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-08-22 07:54 -0700
              Re: ANY(ONE can code Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2025-08-23 02:11 +1000

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