Is your job so easy a 12 year old could do it?

[BlasterBates]

be honest...

Twelve-Year-Old Programmers Help Fuel IPhone Game Frenzy: Tech - Bloomberg

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

be honest...

Twelve-Year-Old Programmers Help Fuel IPhone Game Frenzy: Tech - Bloomberg

If he had started my job at the age of 6 and already have achieved an A level in Maths, then yes.

[Spacecadet]

be honest...

Twelve-Year-Old Programmers Help Fuel IPhone Game Frenzy: Tech - Bloomberg

“I really want to be a computer programmer and build my own codes for a living,”

He's certainly got the language skills to fit into a modern IT development team

[nomadd]

He's certainly got the language skills to fit into a modern IT development team

What, English?

He's finished before he's even started...

Poor kid.

[TestMangler]

He's certainly got the language skills to fit into a modern IT development team

What, English?

He's finished before he's even started...

Poor kid.

Whooooosh

[BrilloPad]

My job mostly involves being shouted at by traders and putting up with a horrific commute.

I reckon 12 year olds would fail on both counts.

[doodab]

He's certainly got the language skills to fit into a modern IT development team

While you may think this is a bobism it actually originates in scientific computing where it's quite common to refer to programs as "codes"

Very few codes scale to thousands of processors today or are being aimed at this level of scalability. If current development timeframes continue, the majority of ISV codes will not be able to take full advantage of petascale systems until three to five years after they are introduced.”

Are You Ready For Multi-Multi-Core Systems? | Numerical Algorithms Group

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

My job mostly involves being shouted at by traders and putting up with a horrific commute.

I reckon 12 year olds would fail on both counts.

So not much real work getting done then?