computer programming language question

[acinomy]

If you apply for a computer programming job, and you haven't touch the langauge they will use for more then a year. How long will you spend to learn it again?

[Sylvestre]

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only you will be able to answer that. It totally depends on your own ability, somewhat on how often you will be using it at the new job, the level of complexity that will be needed for the job, how much you knew to start with etc etc.

But anyway, most companies realize the employee doesn't know 100% on the first day. They will have some lee-way, assuming you didn't say you were a master during the interview.

[blexann]

If you apply for a computer programming job, and you haven't touch the langauge they will use for more then a year. How long will you spend to learn it again?

If your going to forget after 1 year then you dont know that language very well. I still remember the programming languages that I took in university several years ago!

[neospice]

Some people just have poor memories. I can't remember half the languages I used in my lifetime, but if I sit down with a reference book handy it all comes back pretty easy.

[hoob]

Some people just have poor memories. I can't remember half the languages I used in my lifetime, but if I sit down with a reference book handy it all comes back pretty easy.

I'm just waiting for the day my leet REXX and MODULA-3 skills come back into demand...

Any good programmer should be able to pick up and use the fundamentals of a language at the level of a junior programmer within a week or two (supported by handy reference books for ongoing consultation.)

Programming languages are just a syntactic template that solve a particular problem and approach. Some languages enable particular approaches better than others but in the end it's just another collection of keywords patterns.

[comp_freak]

If you applyin for programming jobs, you should always know the basic programmign skills for example if u say object oriented programming than u should knw the concept of the diffrence between OO and other languages for example C and C++.

but bottom line know the basic and show them you can learn and pick up fast. Also i think manytimes they first test you on softskills, your personality, communications style etc etc.. so those are also very important.

hope this will help you

[Emendo]

In addition to re-learning the programming language, very often you also need to re-learn the provided libraries as well. Of course, some languages have very minimial libraries.