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Never had a mentor.
I've done a fair bit of mentoring, but I see that as a non-technical role.
When to start optimising and when to stop, debugging and fault finding approaches, why clever code is stupid etc.
Almost pre-internet academically I started in 1976. Commercially as a programmer was 1987 ish
It wasn't wasted, you know how not to do something, a very valuable lesson.
One I wish those twenty somethings had been taught as part of their vaunted education.
When to start optimising and when to stop, debugging and fault finding approaches, why clever code is stupid etc.
Almost pre-internet academically I started in 1976. Commercially as a programmer was 1987 ish
It wasn't wasted, you know how not to do something, a very valuable lesson.
One I wish those twenty somethings had been taught as part of their vaunted education.
Posted by Tony Hopkinson
24th Oct 2007
