[Closed] For all my fellow resident IT spods, sorry, professionals

Only 6/7 here 🙁

Off to hit myself around the head with an Ada manual.

6/7, got my lettuce and pizza mixed up.

got my lettuce and pizza mixed up.

ditto.

Seven. Bit obscure though.

6 - sorry Grace, thought you'd do better than that. But there again why expect a COBOL programmer to do something imaginative/creative.

[i]expect a COBOL programmer to do something imaginative/creative[/i]

Oi! COBOL is the future 🙂

6 - sorry Grace, thought you'd do better than that. But there again why expect a COBOL programmer to do something imaginative/creative.

Engineers, not artists.

5/7, but I'm retired and am out of touch with current skillsets. 😆

6 lettuce got me, however bit random and most you could work out, the only one I didn't have to guess at was the html question.

4...but then i'm just someone who uses the internet for p0rn and bike forums rather than a professional

btw in the question about inserting an image, what was the difference in the options for 1 and 3? i must be missing something obvious because they looked the same.

Oi! COBOL is the future

Actually I went back to cobol for the last few years I was working- there's still good money in it.

That was ridiculous, I got 6 and i'm a builder! I didn't get the food one either

I got 5 and I am an IT professional. Though none of the questions had any relevance to my job.

[i]what was the difference in the options for 1 and 3?[/i]

'img' and 'image'

See, that's a COBOL coder's eye for detail for you 😉

what was the difference in the options for 1 and 3?

6 - I can watch Star Wars later but I'm not allowed to enjoy it, all because I was more drawn to pizza than lettuce

I got 5 and I am an IT professional. Though none of the questions had any relevance to my job.

Spoken like a true IT professional

5/7 ... 🙄

Omar Little - one tag was <img> the other was <image>

Seriously like anyone writes images into their html these days - it's all gets put in CSS!

I did horribly by the way, but I'm a developer, not a historian - there were no OO or SQL tuning questions on there!

6/7 Got C question wrong. Thought it might be C for commodore

6/7 Got C question wrong. Thought it might be C for commodore

C = (B++);

(Sneaky edit...)

0x7.

Though personally I didn't think they were "questions on computer programs", bit too much irrelevant history.

Needed more Star Trek.

5/7. I hang my head in shame

Pizza and img/image foxed me.

So, so far Cougar and I are the bestest 🙂

*high fives Cougar*

7 and I'm not even one of you programming beardy sandal weirdos 🙂

4. I haven't done html in years, so I got that one wrong, and the lettuce one, and the filnm one, because I don't really watch films.

GrahamS - Member

0x7.

dogbert - Member

Spoken like a true IT professional

Spoken like a true IT geek 😉

5/7 I didn't get the lettuce one and don't see the relevance of the film one

that's the spoddiest post so far

Yay!! I considered binary (111) but that's too predictable.
Shame it wasn't out of eight, then Octal would have been a good choice for maximum confusion (010).

Seriously like anyone writes images into their html these days - it's all gets put in CSS!

Only if you're doing it wrong 😀

If the image is part of the semantic content (i.e. say a diagram or chart) then it should be in the HTML. Only goes in the CSS if it is presentational. 😀

Yay!! I considered binary ([s]1[/s]11) but that's too predictable.

5/7 Poor nerdage here. Never meant to be an IT pro, though. Just happened for a while.

7/7 for me. That was easy!

(I guessed two of them correctly)

6 picked pizza.

So looks like a job on IT then, do I get a platinum pension?

[i]So looks like a job on IT then, do I get a platinum pension?[/i]

Only if it's a job in the Civil Service 😉

4. I like bikes, me.

7 x 7 .

From posts above just goes to show poor quality of IT professionals in UK

6/7 - I had a problem with lettuce.

Oi! COBOL is the future

Nonsense - OS/2 is the future!

6/7 and I have a Comp Sci degree somewhere. Must admit that I only knew some because of general knowledge (Grace and The film one) and got the HTML wrong. However in my defence - when I left Uni, Ada had only just gone live!

Amusingly when they first published it the title was:

"7 questions on computer program[b][u]me[/u][/b]s" rather than
"7 questions on computer programs"

Tsk.

Can anyone explain why we say computer "program", but "programme" is correct for every other case (tv programme, musical programme, programme of events etc)?

Creeping Americanism or just terrible spelling by IT geeks?

It's a technical term which originates in America, so takes the American spelling.

It's the same reason why we have floppy disks but compact discs.

But I thought it was us Brits what invented programming, computers, electricity and fingers?

6

I think no. 1 on the HTML question also ends in '/>' which I don't think is valid?

I think no. 1 on the HTML question also ends in '/>' which I don't think is valid?

It would be invalid ([url= http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.6 ]XHTML[/url]) if it didn't!

I think no. 1 on the HTML question also ends in '/>' which I don't think is valid?

See this is the thing.. They are both valid!

depends what doctype you are using

This is valid html 4

<img src="image.gif" alt="myimage" >

and this

<img src="image.gif" alt="myimage" />

Is valid xhtml

(oopps didn't even look at the question... no 1 has <image...)

Cheeky edit there Graham S!

Cheeky edit there Graham S!

Constant vigilance is the burden of any good pedant 😀