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[nycphp-talk] Semi-OT: Is there a scale for language competency?

Justin Dearing zippy1981 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 18:38:40 EDT 2013


Can you provide a link to that study? I've never heard that, and my gut
says it's folk wisdom that "experts" use to justify their behaviour.
On Aug 20, 2013 6:32 PM, "Gary Mort" <garyamort at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/26/2013 8:51 AM, leam hall wrote:
>
>> Not that I'm looking for a job right now, but there's always the future.
>> Is there a reasonably common scale for saying how good you are with a
>> programming language? Something more than "Rate yourself on a 1-10" scale.
>>
>> In my case I can read several and am trying to improve a couple. It would
>> be nice to be able to concretely convey my skills. Of course, that doesn't
>> really cover related skills like version control, SDLC, etc...
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
>
> The only scale I know of is "beginner/expert"...  Studies show that for
> beginners, productivity and code quality increase dramatically when they
> adhere to a set of code quality rules, version control guidelines, etc as
> agreed upon by the expert coders in the group.
>
> At the same time, productive and code quality DECREASES dramatically for
> the expert programmer when they are asked to adhere to those same rules.
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