Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "Travis Media" channel.

  1.  @DrevorReal  So I'm familiar with the medical field and health informatics. A lot of times in that arena, it's better to train a nurse to code than it is to hire a CS degree holder because a CS degree holder will not understand a lot of the things that they're working with. We live in a world where only those that seek out being a medical professional will understand the healthcare field, but almost everyone will at least have familiarity with computer programming and data management because computers now essentially permeate our lives from birth. The clinical knowledge with a penchant towards or history with programming is what becomes sought after more than a really good programmer that has no clinical knowledge. You're going to spend a lot more time trying to get the CS grad up to speed on healthcare than you will helping a nursing grad to program.
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  2. I've always said that a new programming language takes maybe a week to learn. It's the logic, workflow/time management, and at least a general understanding what's happening under the hood (the assembly) that's difficult to understand but are fully transferable skills. That's what takes a while to learn and be adept at. A lot of times, when the high level code seems solid but it's still not working as expected, knowing what's happening on the assembly level is what's going to get you moving forward. I remember having this problem when I was first learning programming with C. I had to dive deep into how C interpreted strings at the assembly level to understand why input requests were being skipped after the first prompt. That gave me a great appreciation for why understanding the assembly was important.
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