Computer Science Degree in a Blog Post
In anticipation of my MacBook Pro arriving I’ve been scouring the web for the software I’ll need to make it useful and usable. I’ve used SFTPDrive for a while on my Windows boxes and when Magnetk came out with ExpanDrive I bought before I even got the MBP.
I love reading blogs of other developers and the really good developers always have highly informative postings. As someone charged with developing plug-ins for Excel to work around firm imposed constraints and the shortcomings of Excel I’m highly interested in finding better ways of dealing with VB6 and its lack of robustness.
In the latest post on the Magnetk blog they make a good case for circumventing WIN32 and using a high level, cross platform language like Python because it’s fun AND it makes good business sense.
As a person who hires developers and contractors I’d like to recommend blog reading as a requirement to obtain a Computer Science degree. Coding in a vacuum and without exposure to the realities of business have given us decades of craptastic solutions to basic business needs (64K line limit in Excel anybody?).
Filed under: Programming, Python
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Totally agreed, reading other developers blogs gives me a lot of great knowledge in parts that I’ve even started thinking about….