The sound bite that would win the election

tw · 03-22-2004, 10:22 PM

A simple question. How many CS trained people can even do a Karnaugh map? A basic and essential tool for logic minimization. I even had a waiter who could do it. So how many highly paid programmers can do what this Green Card immigrant could do?

In the meantime, most programmer I knew had no CS training. Desperate for a job, they eventually fell into programming. Most programmers I knew were schooled as English majors, et al. Rarely did any programmer have a clue as to what the hardware even did. Should they be called high tech employees - or just unskilled labor?

Who here (simply those who already posted in this thread) can even say what a Karnaugh map is? A simple question limited only to those who already posted - just to see how technically trained we computer people really are.

03-22-2004, 10:22 PM	#24
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	A simple question. How many CS trained people can even do a Karnaugh map? A basic and essential tool for logic minimization. I even had a waiter who could do it. So how many highly paid programmers can do what this Green Card immigrant could do? In the meantime, most programmer I knew had no CS training. Desperate for a job, they eventually fell into programming. Most programmers I knew were schooled as English majors, et al. Rarely did any programmer have a clue as to what the hardware even did. Should they be called high tech employees - or just unskilled labor? Who here (simply those who already posted in this thread) can even say what a Karnaugh map is? A simple question limited only to those who already posted - just to see how technically trained we computer people really are.

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