The rivers of nonsense questions coming into stackoverflow from well meaning people who are not able to describe the difference between a variable and a browser and who don't have the capabilities to care unless it solves their immediate problem at hand leads me to believe that not everyone should program. in fact, many people who do program should be politely asked not to.
Stackoverflow needs a "entrence barrier" test where if you can't communicate or have no ability to think rationally about the words being typed there to solve problems, your question goes to the "dumb" section of the site.
point is, stop encouraging everyone to be programmers. You're slowing progress by doing so.
we've got 4.4 million questions, 90% of it from novices that should be asked not to program. you can go take a look at them, they are little better than "how is babby formed" type questions. These people are trying to program when they should be told that it's too hard.
Stackoverflow needs a "entrence barrier" test where if you can't communicate or have no ability to think rationally about the words being typed there to solve problems, your question goes to the "dumb" section of the site.
point is, stop encouraging everyone to be programmers. You're slowing progress by doing so.
we've got 4.4 million questions, 90% of it from novices that should be asked not to program. you can go take a look at them, they are little better than "how is babby formed" type questions. These people are trying to program when they should be told that it's too hard.