[gameprogrammer] Re: software engineering

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:20:03 +0400, Alexander Sabourenkov
<screwdriver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For some obscure reason, all links on the first page of google results for
> 'second system syndrome' pointed to more-or-less exact definitions.

Thanks so much for your quick and accurate, if condescending, answer.
You're so right, every time an unfamiliar term comes up I should
immediately google for it. There's no better way to look educated in a
job interview than to respond to an interviewer's questions with,
"Could I borrow a web browser for a few minutes to look up the answer
to that?"

I am well aware of the various search sites available on the web. I
chose to eschew them in favor of the opinions of people who I feel are
more competent in the subject than myself, in order to increase my own
level of competence in the subject. If it was just one term, yes, I'd
look it up in google. However, being the logical person I am, I made
the deduction that if I didn't know the meaning of *one* software
engineering term, that it's entirely possible there might be *other*
terms I don't know as well. Now, of course, that being the case my
choice is reduced to A) look up each term individually, or B) ask
people who know what they're talking about (like Bob Pendleton and
others on this list) to recommend a book with lots of terms in it,
that I can learn all at once, not coincidentally absorbing the
relation between all the terms as well.

Perhaps you could suppress your hostility long enough to suggest a
book, as I originally asked?

Thanks so much.

-Justin


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