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Get to know us in 1 minute Do you need talent? Job vacancies Highlights Contact Users access Are veteran software programmers becoming obsolete? " RETURN 06-14-2013 The team of Emerson Murphy-Hill, professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, United States, analyzed the profiles of more than 80,000 programmers on StackOverflow, which is an online community that allows users to ask and answer programming questions. The website also allows users to rate the usefulness of other users' questions and answers. Users whose scores reflect that they asked good questions and / or gave good answers receive points that are reflected in their "reputation score". The higher a person's reputation score, the more likely the user is to have a solid understanding of programming issues. For the first part of the study, the researchers compared the age of the users with their reputation scores. And a person's reputation scores were found to increase with age, up to their mid-forties or even their fifties. There were insufficient data to draw meaningful conclusions for older programmers. The researchers evaluated the knowledge of veteran programmers (aged 37 and over) compared to young programmers (under 37 years of age) in terms of recent technologies, or more specifically, technologies that have been in existence for less than 10 years. For two smartphone operating systems, iOS and Windows Phone 7, veteran programmers had a significant knowledge advantage over their younger colleagues. For any other technology, from Django to Silverlight, there were no statistically significant differences between the older and younger programmers. Therefore, the data does not support a bias against veteran programmers; in fact they indicate just the opposite of what prejudice says. Source: noticiasdelaciencia Follow us on : © 2007 clickiTPoint SL · P.º de la Castellana, 8 - 7º izda. - 28046 Madrid Web map Legal warning CSR FAQ

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