Versus the lazy programmer

Was reminded of this article recently (shared a long time ago by Prof Ben and Yang Shun)
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/240644

In particular they highlighted this quote

9. Laziness.

Larry Wall, the original author of, The Perl Programming Languages, describes three good qualities in a good programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris. Laziness may sound like a bad trait for any employee to have, but IT managers have said that if you want to find the best way to do something, ask a lazy person. Chances are, that person will have found the quickest, most efficient way to do it. A company’s programming staff can often find a way to automate processes, saving time and money.

Here I need to disagree. Yes, laziness might lead you to do more automation and less work. That's a good thing.

However there's also laziness on a different scale which is the "don't do anything" scale. How bout forget about making the computer do it, let's not do it at all? Basically where laziness may be a good indicator of a person's aptitude for code, it throws away every other metric that you have on the board, and that does not play well with anything.

PIVOT

So... Here goes final project.

We started out wanting to do Treatsure with Preston. Failed horribly because of contract issues. I think mostly the contract lost whatever credibility he had and then it just collapsed into something we couldn't do.

To be honest it's a good thing it collapsed. The scope and timeframe were rather infeasible. Glad we got shocked into our senses and pulled out.

So we moved into our next contact, doing Huntbot. This one actually hit a good running start - we had a good portion of work done - most of the backend work was completed, except we hit a snag when we went through the review with Prof Colin and he decided it was too simple. He proposed some improvements but none of them were in the realm of possibility.

We then went back for Project #3 - a marketplace for telemarketers. This one, unsurprisingly, got shot down too, by Prof Ben this time. He told us we're trying to solve a 2 sided problem in a field where we had no experience. Again, he was right. We had to drop this project too.

Thankfully he linked us up with one of his ex-TAs to do the project we're now calling PIVOT. PIVOT cos we're really sick of changing projects. Really. We're off to a very late start and we hope we can rescue this. In short, it's trying to kickstart the online tuition industry. As someone who's taught CS1010FC/S for the past 2 and a half years, this is terribly interesting... As I've hated online classes. The big question is whether we can make it a convenient and conducive environment for learning.

Features coming soon ;)