Good morning everyone, I've usually taken a dive-in/head-first approach to the things I've engaged in, more and more lately I've come to realize that this approach is not always appropriate. I believe this realization can be called "experience." So, I have a question I hoped the group could help me with. While it is generally applicable to programming in any language, I am asking with specific regard to PHP. When a customer, client or supervisor presents with task description, how is that tasking rated for complexity? By how many functions are involved? My how many logic decisions must be performed? A combination? Now throw in a time factor. What if "your" ability would have you completing it in 12 hours but they want it in 6? Or 4? Are there guidelines for helping someone new at these types of evaluations? Or is it all based on experience and familiarity with past accomplishments? Given the nature of this tasking (a coding challenge) how likely is it that they do not really expect a finished product but wanted to see how far a person got with it? If that, is 16 hours (overnight) excessive? How many of us are willing to stay up all night on a coding challenge for a prospective employer with no promise of being hired? The reason I ask, I saw tasking to create a loan repayment calendar (or calculator). So basically, all the usual complexity of a calendar (or calculator), then calculate weekends and holidays, and shift the paydate to the left as needed to not fall on one of those. Now figure that the usual time to complete this task (just the processing script, not a GUI for it) is claimed to be 3-4 hours (but 16 hours are given). So while I want to know how to rate tasking complexity more generally, at root I'm wondering what degree of proficiency (with PHP) must a programmer have to complete this sort of task in those sorts of time frames. Reese -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
