{"id":1308,"date":"2006-06-13T07:16:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T07:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/this-is-exactly\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T07:16:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T07:16:34","slug":"this-is-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/this-is-exactly\/","title":{"rendered":"This is exactly why I got out of programming and into teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Coding Horror: The Noble Art of Maintenance Programming\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000610.html\">Coding Horror: The Noble Art of Maintenance Programming<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timely Post<\/p>\n<p>I will admit that I didn&#8217;t try hard enough, but the only programming jobs I could get was as a maintenance programmer, and the hardest part of that was the hours.  I literally was on call almost before pagers and cell phones, (back in 1983) almost every night and almost every weekend.  The only way I could get off call was to go out of town and be unreachable.  We used to take turns.  Hmmm, I could have lied, but I lived to close to the worksite, and knew I would get caught.  In fact, I think I did once.<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher, sometimes I think all I do these days is maintenance &#8212; fixing the kiddos programming mistakes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coding Horror: The Noble Art of Maintenance Programming Timely Post I will admit that I didn&#8217;t try hard enough, but the only programming jobs I could get was as a maintenance programmer, and the hardest part of that was the hours. I literally was on call almost before pagers and cell phones, (back in 1983) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}