From: "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...>
Date: 2012-12-16T21:38:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Wondering About Flatiron School

	Subject: Re: Wondering About Flatiron School
	Date: Sun 16 Dec 12 08:38:31PM +0900

Quoting Peter Hickman (peterhickman386@googlemail.com):

> So what we are looking for is:
> 1) The ability to study and think analytically - a degree is a good proxy
> for this
> 2) The ability to teach oneself new skills
> 3) The creation of applications with those skills that have made it into
> the wild - application of those skills
> 4) An interest in computing beyond marketable skills
> 5) Experience in a commercial computing environment (around 1 year is good)

I wonder how you deal with people who offer lots of experience (say,
around a quarter of a century). I mean: what could a person learn in a
year? If I compare myself now and after one year being employed, I
certainly wouldn't want to go back... And I had already done one
year's Fortran77 at the university plus an unforgettable year writing
administrative code in GWbasic (compulsory military service).

Carlo

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