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Thursday February 27, 2003

10:29 PM

[ #10831 ]

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Opinion collection: where is an appropriate balance point between programming knowledge and domain knowledge?

Or to put it another way, what's the minimum amount of domain knowledge a programmer should have - or vice versa - to (generally) be successful?

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appropriate balance point (Score:1)

by dws (341)

I depends on the domain, it depends on what you're doing. If you're responsible for the build environment, you may not need to know as much. If you're the architect, you'd better know a lot. It depends on how much domain-specific language there is to pick up before you can communicate effectively with domain experts.
Depends on the domain (Score:2)

by ziggy (25)

Opinion collection: where is an appropriate balance point between programming knowledge and domain knowledge?

Like dws said, it depends on the domain. The balance isn't really between domain vs. programming knowledge within the programmer, but the balance of deep domain vs. shallow domain jobs in the market.
In my experience, there are a great many jobs in the world that require a solid knowledge of general programming with little domain specific knowledge. An intelligent programmer can ramp up to sp