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mkbosmans | 2 years ago

I do agree about the virtues of a resume that shows that it has been put together with care and attention.

But don't forget that while coding, the IDE, compiler, or whatever will correct your spelling mistakes in a very short feedback loop, with hardly any penalty for your output rate. That might mean that your dyslexic super programmer has never learned the value of carefully going over each text before submission.

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koliber|2 years ago

> has never learned the value of carefully going over each text before submission.

Exactly. Proofreading and double checking is a valuable skill/habit. I would consider the programmers that learned this to be better programmers. I’d venture a guess that those that learned this early on got better grades. I can use the grade as an aggregate proxy score of a bunch of different abilities and habits. Many of those are helpful at work.