First: I am not a programmer (though my employer hired me as such)
Second: I am not a genius (though I guess I'm the best coder around where I work)

I don't care if I see a young guy/gal coding way better than me. I just learn from it. Coding isn't all there is to programming. Like others said replying to your posting: experience is needed for certain things. I like to call myself a pretty allround guy. I've been into system administration, helpdesk, project management, security, webdesign and perl coding. From all these different things I learned so many things I use now, which a pure programmer at the age of 14 simply does not know.

Maybe these guys are programming Shakespeares. In that case call me the publisher. They have to learn there is much more than just coding.

Just my EUR 0.02,

Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'
Using Perl to help the disabled: pVoice and pStory

---

In reply to Re: What if you are not a genius? by Jouke
in thread What if you are not a genius? by nysus

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":

---

• Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
• Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:

  <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>

• Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
• Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.