#19 - Dave Guertin: The Nuts of Software
Dave is a Senior Programmer Director at Meditech.
- Not a Beer drinker – Sangria or Bailey’s
- Software engineers have a sense of humor, too.
- His high school had AutoCAD in 1985(ish).
- He learned it and sort of taught the class.
- Software engineering hasn’t changed, yet it is completely different.
- Programming has been commoditized –
- But it depends how you define it.
- Does everyone need to know how to code?
- No but, they all need to learn to use a computer.
- Both mechanical engineers and software engineers use many off the shelf items when designing news things.
- Dave creates those of the shelf things
- Dates are surprisingly complicated
- Software engineers get a lot of instant gratification. Mechanical engineers don’t
- Software quality control is testing the software in a plethora of situations.
- It’s similar to environmental changes for physical products
