"Lux, James P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would say that you shouldn't be teaching the Scientist to > code. You should be teaching them to write good requirements > documents & test cases that someone who is skilled at coding can > use.
I think it is very hard to do that. It is not uncommon for me to get someone asking me a question of the form "I need to do X, how can I do it", and while explaining to them how to do X, further questioning slowly reveals that they really should be doing Y. It just isn't possible for someone who doesn't program as well as a decent programmer to put together good requirements because they don't understand well enough what is possible. Over the years, I've worked in several very specialized fields. The people who wrote the best software were both actual computer scientists and actual domain experts. I admit that such people are rare, and you usually can't get them, but that is the *ideal* case. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
