On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 12:17 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM, kenneth gonsalves
<lawgon at thenilgiris.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:21 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:thinking
Programming is a good way to start but what is necessary is
hasand domain
knowledge to know where to apply what knowledge.
are you sure you understand the meaning of 'programming' (hint: it
nothing to do with knowing the syntax of a particular language)
I guess I would agree with Girish on this.
What most
people(at least those whom I interact with) think is, programming in
itself is the final goal. In my understanding, programming is the
ability to solve a problem using a computer language. It includes the
design, implementation, tests etc.
But to design, or do any of the above things, we need to have
a basic understanding of the problem domain. Programming, by itself,
doesn't give that. And again, to design, what is necessary is
thinking, based on the domain knowledge that we have. Thanks
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