Comments on: 'The Apprentice,' software style

"You can consider it the 'You're hired!' version," says founder of software company at center of documentary.

[sanenazok]

Others Failed to Capture all aspects you say...

Oh yeah this documentary will "capture all aspects of the software creation process" and will be better than its predecessors. If it does then it will be awful - this is about as exciting as filming the process of someone creating a new revision of a chemistry textbook. Yes, for the next 20 hours I'm going to solve and double check problems in chapters 8 through 12. Will you come and watch?

So learn from the "mistakes" of others and also omit some of the tedius phases. Although personally I would like to see them design some testbeds for some black box testing of their code. Go intern 2 go, you make the best (test)bed.

[sanenazok]

Others Failed to Capture all aspects you say...

Oh yeah this documentary will "capture all aspects of the software creation process" and will be better than its predecessors. If it does then it will be awful - this is about as exciting as filming the process of someone creating a new revision of a chemistry textbook. Yes, for the next 20 hours I'm going to solve and double check problems in chapters 8 through 12. Will you come and watch?

So learn from the "mistakes" of others and also omit some of the tedius phases. Although personally I would like to see them design some testbeds for some black box testing of their code. Go intern 2 go, you make the best (test)bed.

[C.Schroeder]

Go for it!

Any opportunity to show engineering in a real-world context, instead of humor (Dilbert) and science fiction, has to be a good thing. The documentary made at Boeing leading up to first flight of the 777 was very good.

We have lots of prime time TV shows about doctors and lawyers, but not real-world engineers and scientists. Is it any wonder why many students are increasingly desinterested in math and science as they progress through their schooling? Popular culture is telling them those skills aren't important.

[C.Schroeder]

Go for it!

Any opportunity to show engineering in a real-world context, instead of humor (Dilbert) and science fiction, has to be a good thing. The documentary made at Boeing leading up to first flight of the 777 was very good.

We have lots of prime time TV shows about doctors and lawyers, but not real-world engineers and scientists. Is it any wonder why many students are increasingly desinterested in math and science as they progress through their schooling? Popular culture is telling them those skills aren't important.