ITS - how secure is it?

[ZPlayer]

Originally Posted by NJBest

Programmers should also be trained in psychology, sociology and anthropology. But we can't have geniuses everywhere, otherwise we'd have to pay them more. There's a place for everyone.

No, no, I didn't mean to go this far with it, but the idea is too many employed programmers have very shallow knowledge base. Ultimately, it serves programming profession no good, since there are too many essentially unqualified people who are ready to get booted at first opportunity. So when IT sector shows hiring, it doesn't really imply healthy growth, but simply shows inflation. But even aside from business aspects, simply looking at the pioneers of computing shows how much knowledge one needs to have to be effective in this profession.

Just a side question (I assume you're programmer): if I ask you to reproduce Boyer-Moore in C++, would you be able to do it just from memory?

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by ZPlayer

No, no, I didn't mean to go this far with it, but the idea is too many employed programmers have very shallow knowledge base. Ultimately, it serves programming profession no good, since there are too many essentially unqualified people who are ready to get booted at first opportunity. So when IT sector shows hiring, it doesn't really imply healthy growth, but simply shows inflation. But even aside from business aspects, simply looking at the pioneers of computing shows how much knowledge one needs to have to be effective in this profession.

Just a side question (I assume you're programmer): if I ask you to reproduce Boyer-Moore in C++, would you be able to do it just from memory?

I have a B.S.E. in Computer Science, but do not work in the field nor do I program regularly. I suppose you can consider part of my job software engineering.

I don't recall which search method the Boyer-Moore is anymore, thus I couldn't code it based off of the name. If I knew which one it was (and some information about how it worked), I could surely code it in C++. C++ is the language I learned to program in and used throughout high school and college.