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Originally Posted by rainer
For some people, that's true.
I remember reading a kind of experiment/study done on some highschool (or maybe 1st year university) students in programming classes. The researchers wrote a test of some general questions, not language specific but testing basic programming knowledge (eg int a = 5; int b = a; What is the value of b?). They tested the students on the first day of class, and again at the end of the class. They found that the scores didn't really change! Some people just understood how these kinds of things work, and very few of the ones who didn't understand at the beginning learned any more.
You're probably in the group that understands. Sure, you may not know an actual programming language, but you have a decent idea of how it's done, which would let you give a decent estimate for how long work would take. On the other hand, people from the second group that just don't get it probably can't give a useful estimate.
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That's a pretty interesting study, and makes perfect sense. I've found, though, that it's all about communication and how well both parties understand what needs to be done. Obviously, my first example in this post had nothing in regard of requirements, other than "it should only take ten minutes". But, in regard to this board, I see more than a few of those posts as that being the "requirement".
Anyway man... Welcome to the board.