[Lula-biz] opens source competency?

[Jack Denman]

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:52, Steve Barnette wrote:
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> > [mailto:lula-biz-admin at lula.org]On Behalf
> > Of Jack Denman
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:55 PM
> > To: lula-biz at lula.org; lula-biz at lula.org
> > Subject: RE: [Lula-biz] opens source competency?
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> > As for myself, I have never learned much from tests.
> >
> > Jack Denman
>
> This there is something wrong with you or the person who wrote the
> test. Don't you ever test yourself, how do you know you understand a
> topic?  Computers are a very big topic and even the sub-topics within
> are very large.  Most peoples knowledge is as I call it, like Swiss
> cheese.  Nobody knows everything, there are holes in their knowledge,
> because topics are large.  You study and take tests to help find those
> holes in your knowledge so you can fill them in.  Also the test isn't
> has important as the process of studying for test. Learning how to
> learn, learn how to research and find answers.  That is the skill all
> the successful people have, not that they know all answers off the top
> of their head, but they know how to find answers when they need them.
> They know how the to take knowledge from one area they know and use it
> to solve a problem in another area.  Take programming for example. You
> learn a new API call and learn an example of how to use.  If you leave
> at that you probably won't get too far and probably forget it as fast
> as you learned it.  But if you "test" yourself by writing your own
> example, then write a test to see if it breaks or does it error out as
> described, write a little test to see it limits.  That is typical
> process good programmers go through learning something new.  They
> don't look at so much as a "test" but that is what it is, a form of
> self testing to.
>
> Tests are only as good as you make them.
>
> Steve B.

I will confine my remarks to tests only, and I speak only for myself, not for 
others. Almost without exception, I know how well I will do on any test 
before I take it. I know when I will flunk the test or exam just as well as I 
know when I will get an A. A lot of it has to do with awareness of the 
subject matter, the instructor, and how well I prepared for it. It seems 
intuitive to me that if I am surprised by the test results, something is very 
wrong.

I do not regard self-tests as you describe them as tests in the formal sense. 
The people in QA do the real testing on the code I write, or at least should 
be the ones to test it.

I know that unless I have prepared myself for any exam beyound the scope of 
normal expectations, I am not going to excel. When taking the test, either 
you know the answer or you don't. If you understand 80% of a problem on the 
test, you know 0% of the answer.

Jack Denman


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