New feature: coding experience

General Discussions
#1

I sometimes find myself wondering how common visitors can make such rookie mistakes. Once someone has been on JGO for more than half a year, I tend to assume they ought to know things - that may not be entirely fair. I suspect other people might be dealing with this too.

What is lacking is context, to be more specific: the months or years of experience somebody has with java, or coding in general. I decided that it was easy enough to add, so from now on it’s possible to add your experience in your profile, and it will be displayed alongside every post you make.

I hope this will mean that people will tolerate rookie mistakes even better, being even more lenient towards people just learning the ropes.

If you haven’t entered your coding experience yet, you’ll see a link to your profile in your post. This is only shown for you, others will not see this link in your posts, as to not force you into sharing this statistic with the world. :slight_smile:

Obviously, it has absolutely no influence on your rank. That’d be a rookie mistake :point:

As always, feedback is appreciated!

  • Riven
#2

Nice feature, however I’m concerned that it could possibly make some users discriminate against others.
Edit: You made a rookie mistake. You missed out 6-9 months. :stuck_out_tongue:

#3

Does the value increase automatically or do we have to adjust it manually from time to time?

#4

I expect the opposite will happen (annoyance/discrimination --> tolerance), but we’ll have to see how it pans out. :slight_smile:

Fixed! :emo:

#5

One day, it will increase automatically. Today is one day, but not that day :slight_smile:

#6

very nice, major props for being able to implement this with SMF :point:

#7

I hope users are honest about their experience.

#8

Cool, I like this one!
And I do think that people that register here are mature enough not to lie about something like that. At least I hope so ::slight_smile:

#9

The thing is that filling out a higher number, can only be held against you. :slight_smile:

As with, say, 3 years of experience, you ought to know better than to ask that question.

In other news, I saw somebody put ‘30 years’ for general coding expereince, which was the maximum value, so I increased the max to 50 years. Now that should be enough, right…? :-*

#10

Damnthatquotelimitdamnthatquotelimit…

#11

It turns out someone can have more experience on java than on coding in general.

#12

I like to let people fill out whatever they want. I’m not going to enforce such business rules any time soon. :slight_smile:

#13

Definitely will be interesting.

#14

Bahhhhh im so young still :’(

#15

Very nice :smiley: However missing 6-9 month :frowning:

#16

Stay young, or die trying.

#17


That reminded me of the true story about the boy named “Peter Pan”. No, he isn’t very nice at all!

Edit, why not also show overall experience? I have three years experience in Java, but four overall. I learned some stuff that applies to programming in general, not just Java, in that one year. Someone may have only two years experience in Java, but maybe 15 overall. Obviously they would know more than someone who has only two years coding experience, if that makes any sense.

#18

Well, the options are: <1, 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 months

#19

Derp derp, on android never seen them heh.

#20

Well, there is limited space, so there is only really room for 1 line specifying experience, and showing 2 numbers is just confusing. Java experience is the best one, even if that means it isn’t a good indication for every single one of us. Feel free to cheat the rules a bit, adding a year, if you think it’s the right thing to do, in your case. There will be no background checks, honestly :slight_smile: