[PLUG] Slightly OT: PCC software engineering program

Jason Van Cleve jason at vancleve.com
Tue Aug 5 16:50:02 UTC 2003


On 05 Aug 2003 16:18:41 -0700
Brian Beattie <beattie at beattie-home.net> wrote:

> goal in mind, a design in my head.

See, there's a can of worms, because I could argue there is always a
design of some sort in mind.  No meaningful code could be written
without it.  But I hold such in contrast to a complete, formal design,
the necessity of which is sometimes less palpable.

> In school I heard about "coders" but like I say I've never been
> anywhere that actually had any.

If I were to define the term, I'd say a coder is one who writes code,
preferably according to a formal design, but which isn't necessarily his
own.  It's a diminutive epithet, one which I often apply to myself for
the sake of modesty.  We could call ourselves "software architects", but
unless your company were large enough to render such a lofty term
useful, it would seem vainglorious.  Of course, having said that, I
should probably change my resume now.  ;)

--Jason




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