Re: [OT] One for the iPhone/iTouch users

"Simian" <simian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Timo Geusch wrote:

The Older Gentleman wrote:

Cab <my_email_address_is_in_my_sig@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

THe best part about it, is that it has this installer, with which
you can install loads of applications on the iPhone/iTouch. Very,
very handy.

Number One Son has developed some apps for the iTouch/iPhone.

Ported games to it, and so on. He showed us a version of Tetris
where you can adjust the blocks as they fall, by touch.

Seems he's done it himself. He reckons he'll be selling it in June.
This is something that is so far beyond my understanding it's
unreal, but apparently at his college, The Doctor was told that
he's a 'born programmer'.

If he is, then try to make sure that he's getting an education in a
place where they teach him how to be a proper programmer/computer
scientist and not just just an IDE button pusher for the programming
language du jour.

IDE button pusher for the X du jour is the ideal way of making making
reasonable amounts of cash for minimal effort.

That's probably what I've been doing wrong then. I actually try to get
an in-depth understanding of what I'm doing. Silly me.

At least it is if my EKS friends are anything to go by. A few years
ago: VBA, SQL server, ASP, etc. Now it's .Net, J2EE, whatever. 100k+
for knowing a few key phrases and clicking on a few buttons.

As long as they've got enough of an understanding of what they do to be
able to learn new IDEs to push buttons on, that's fine.

My comment was more targeted at the "teach students to push IDE buttons"
type of programmer education that you tend to see a lot these days in
response to the usual brain-dead industry demands for more fully-hatched
"J2EE gurus with gllrwrkszz on CrozzPolination", even if they can't tell
a mergesort from a bubblesort and have no fucking idea as to what
O-notation is. As long as they're "productive" from day one and can be
easily transferred into the company's street cleaning division as soon
as the new buzzwords come out.

But that's OK, with those infinitely powerful machines we have these
days with infinite RAM and unfeasibly large amounts of disk space, we
don't need to worry about burning CPU cycles and running out of memory
any more, so we don't need no steenkin' basics anymore, do we?

But what do I know, I've only been doing this kind of *** for about 20
years...

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