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Submitted by Alexander Allen on Thu, 2009-11-19 08:11

This post is continued from my previous post In programming there's no hand-holding, just like in the Army

My friends often ask me "why did you join the Army?" and "what did you learn from the Army?". Because they obviously haven't been to it, they can only appreciate it from the perspective of the mainstream media which all it shows are the same15 to 30 second footage clips of marines patrolling the streets of Baghdad or Kabul, or bloodied dead people lying on the floor.

In programming there's no hand-holding, just like in the Army.

Submitted by Alexander Allen on Thu, 2009-11-19 06:33

Disclaimer: While this post is not necessarily organized, or offers any kind of reference to facts, it represent some of the feelings floating in my head. It's not a thesis, it's just a rant.

There are two things that inspired this post:

  • Friends asking me to teach them how to program
  • Some previous posts by some renowned Drupal community developers about the lack of programmers (although not exactly relating to what I'm about to say)

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