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fiat_knoxYes, I am familiar with the following: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, serverside and clientside apps, CGI, Perl, Python, ASP and PHP.
I can't guarantee I'm going to be a shit hot whiz at all of them, but I can find my way around a web page in whatever language it's written, and tell you what it does.
And no, I don't know everything about each of these languages. Who the hell does? Not even the people who invented them now know everything about their children, because languages evolve with the needs of the users - especially computer languages - and thus evolve very quickly beyond the original specifications of their creators.
My fluency in each language also varies, from highly advanced in the case of HTML and CSS, to pretty good in the case of Javascript, to a basic level in some of the other cases. But that's the whole point. Even with twenty years' experience of computers, going on for thirty, you can't find the time to get to be a total master of everything, so you concentrate on being really good at some things and moderately good to pretty okay in everything else.
And my competitors might have had "two years' experience" in a given skill set, but is that two years' real experience of life, or just two years sitting at a desk for thirty hours a week, staring at a screen and cutting and pasting code that already exists and has been written somewhere else? Because if you want one of those sort of employees, I could do that too.
But that would be a waste of your salary.
I can't guarantee I'm going to be a shit hot whiz at all of them, but I can find my way around a web page in whatever language it's written, and tell you what it does.
And no, I don't know everything about each of these languages. Who the hell does? Not even the people who invented them now know everything about their children, because languages evolve with the needs of the users - especially computer languages - and thus evolve very quickly beyond the original specifications of their creators.
My fluency in each language also varies, from highly advanced in the case of HTML and CSS, to pretty good in the case of Javascript, to a basic level in some of the other cases. But that's the whole point. Even with twenty years' experience of computers, going on for thirty, you can't find the time to get to be a total master of everything, so you concentrate on being really good at some things and moderately good to pretty okay in everything else.
And my competitors might have had "two years' experience" in a given skill set, but is that two years' real experience of life, or just two years sitting at a desk for thirty hours a week, staring at a screen and cutting and pasting code that already exists and has been written somewhere else? Because if you want one of those sort of employees, I could do that too.
But that would be a waste of your salary.
