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How can I give a basic idea of what I'm working on to a non programmer? [closed]
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How to explain programming to a non-programmer?
As a relatively new programmer (1 year professionally, many years as an amateur) I've run into many situations that sent ...
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Has “Not everyone can be a programmer” been studied?
An old adage that many programmers stick to is "It takes a certain type of mind to learn programming, and not everyone can do it."
Now I'm sure that we all have our own trove of anecdotal evidence, ...
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How can a non-technical person learn to write a spec for small projects?
How can a non-technical person learn to write specs for small projects?
A friend of mine is trying to outsource some development on a statistics project.
In particular, he does a lot of work in ...
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How to explain to a layperson the variance in programmer rates?
I recently talked to a guy that is looking for developers to build a product idea. He mentioned he has received interest from people but the rates have varied from $20-120/hr. This project he ...
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Can non-IT people handle a wiki?
My company is looking to improve their market research data management.
Current data management style:
"Hey Jimbo, where's that picture of our WhatZit 2.0?
"yeah I remember that email about that ...
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What appears in your mind if someone asks for a module for application?
Non-technical people tend to say the word module instead of feature. But I always get annoyed if someone tells me to write a module when what they really want is a feature.
In my opinion a module is ...
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Which software development practices would you recommend non-programmers implement in their fields of work? [closed]
Say you had to give a talk to non-programmers who were looking to learn something from software development that they could apply to their own functions.
Question: What practices would you preach?
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How to explain to non-programmers that programming is not a repetitive task?
Some people have the view of programming that it is just repetitive typing on a keyboard. None of this is true. First of all, there is so much more you have to do than actually typing down the code, ...
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Interesting non programming tasks for programmers
This question is related to my another questions asked to HN community
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450143
Here is the summary of above thread:
I asked HN community if we should give 2nd ...
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How can you explain “beautiful code” to a non-programmer?
When speaking with a non-programmer friend, I happened to mention the concept of "beautiful code" and she wanted to understand what that meant, but I was at a bit of a loss as to how to explain it to ...
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Book on Access and SQL [closed]
My little brother is a CPA but in his new job he is required to use access to pull his own data. He has grown frustrated with the limitations of the canned reports that he has access to. However he ...
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How to explain to non-technical person why the task will take much longer then they think?
Almost every developer has to answer questions from business side like:
Why is going to take 2 days to add this simple contact form?
When developer estimates this task, they may divide it into steps:
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How to introduce web development to non-programmers?
Once one of my non-programmer friends asked, "I have a cool website idea that I don't want to share. Rather I want to develop it on my own. So, I want to learn web development. Tell me what to do?"
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Testing for Non Programmers
I would like to get my younger brother, who can't program, to test some code I am writing from requirements I provide him in documentation. Is there a way to get him going quickly? Ideas?
Please and ...
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How do you explain the source of an identifed problem without making it an “excuse”?
As practicing (as much as I can at least) "egoless programming", I'm focused on solving problems whoever wrote the code related (if that person don't make dangerous code) and I like to understand the ...
