>why do you care about it in the first place? Also what is your definition of good programmer?
Is this a joke? They care because they are selecting applicants to a programming boot camp and want to select the ones more likely to be successful. I suppose they could make all of the applicants learn to program and select the best ones, but there could be issues with that. And they are pretty clear that they are defining 'good programmer' as 'good outcome in their course'.
>They care because they are selecting applicants to a programming boot camp and want to select the ones more likely to be successful.
Just make a programming test. IMO is more certain than relying on knowing algebra well or not. But I don't have any data to show you, is just me thinking about it.
>Prove it.
I can't, you are right. I just said what I was thinking.
Is this a joke? They care because they are selecting applicants to a programming boot camp and want to select the ones more likely to be successful. I suppose they could make all of the applicants learn to program and select the best ones, but there could be issues with that. And they are pretty clear that they are defining 'good programmer' as 'good outcome in their course'.
> A better test would be...
Prove it.