{"id":227,"date":"2001-08-14T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2001-08-14T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=227"},"modified":"2006-04-03T07:01:44","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T12:01:44","slug":"know-your-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/08\/14\/know-your-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"know your roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a discussion with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dithered.com\">Chris Nott<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.construx.com\/stevemcc\/cc.htm\">Code Complete<\/a> and more generally, the learning of classic programming fundamentals.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=221\">touched<\/a> on this a week ago, but it deserves a bit more mention.  I&#8217;ll just quote something (warts and all) I wrote to Chris:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I have seen idiots with useless compsci degrees who haven&#8217;t a clue who the fuck Dijkstra or Yourdon are or what any of their contributions were.  Imagine an architect who hadn&#8217;t heard of Christopher Wren or Frank Lloyd Wright.  Sheeesh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My Dad has said to me that he doesn&#8217;t understand how I manage to get idiots to pay me big bucks to program for the internet for them when everybody&#8217;s 15-yr-old brother can do this stuff.  I say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Sure, Dad.  So when you want to build a 27-storey office tower, I&#8217;m sure you can pay Bob down the street who drywalls basements in his spare time $10 per hour to design and build it for you.  Just let me know so I can stay out of reach when the first light breeze comes along.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a discussion with Chris Nott about Code Complete and more generally, the learning of classic programming fundamentals. I touched on this a week ago, but it deserves a bit more mention. I&#8217;ll just quote something (warts and all) I wrote to Chris: I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I have seen idiots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}