Comments on: A Difference Between Indian and American Programmers http://www.thoughtclusters.com/2009/10/a-difference-between-indian-and-american-programmers/ Software Development and Management Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: indian programmers http://www.thoughtclusters.com/2009/10/a-difference-between-indian-and-american-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-8163 indian programmers Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:09 +0000 http://www.thoughtclusters.com/?p=1138#comment-8163 Indian programmers are more efficient and less expensive, and there's a tremendous talent pool in India. My personal experience there is no lack of good programmers in India. Indian programmers are more efficient and less expensive, and there’s a tremendous talent pool in India. My personal experience there is no lack of good programmers in India.

]]> By: Krishna http://www.thoughtclusters.com/2009/10/a-difference-between-indian-and-american-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-3619 Krishna Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:29:22 +0000 http://www.thoughtclusters.com/?p=1138#comment-3619 Craig, I was actually saying that there is a huge gap between the higher standards in US versus the lower standards in India, the reason being that many Indian programmers have not grown up with computers in their childhood. I didn't mean this post in a competitive sense. As long as both American and Indian programmers continue to improve, it is a win-win situation. Better for the world. Craig, I was actually saying that there is a huge gap between the higher standards in US versus the lower standards in India, the reason being that many Indian programmers have not grown up with computers in their childhood.

I didn’t mean this post in a competitive sense. As long as both American and Indian programmers continue to improve, it is a win-win situation. Better for the world.

]]> By: Craig McClanahan http://www.thoughtclusters.com/2009/10/a-difference-between-indian-and-american-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-3610 Craig McClanahan Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:20:33 +0000 http://www.thoughtclusters.com/?p=1138#comment-3610 Things have changed in India ... but they have also changed in the United States. If we want to play "my computer experience was younger than your computer experience" games, I'll submit my (now 29 year old) son to the equation. The first time that my wife and I knew he could roll over was when he was less than 1 year old, and I had brought him and my wife to a data center, where I was doing some contract work, one evening. We first knew he could roll over when we found that he had been on his back, but was suddenly on his stomach grabbing on to the cables between the disk drives and the mainframe :-). More seriously, there has *definitely* been a positive change in the Indian IT envronment over the last few years. In addition to seeing the immense positive strides in the knowledge and skills of the Indian engineers I have worked with in our (Sun's) Bangalore office, it also becomes clear when you compare the kinds of questions I received when presenting sessions at the Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) conferences in 2007 and 2009. The first time around, most of the questions were pretty basic, but this year they were detailed, in depth, and very much focused on state of the art technologies. That is all well and good for the Indian developer community. The advances you describe are *real*. Just keep in mind that the American developer community is evolving as well -- among other endeavors I am helping out my son's startup company build out some of their baseline technology, and the level of software development knowledge and skill among teens and 20-somethings in the U.S. continues to astound me. Indian developers can astound me too! Keep it up! Things have changed in India … but they have also changed in the United States.

If we want to play “my computer experience was younger than your computer experience” games, I’ll submit my (now 29 year old) son to the equation. The first time that my wife and I knew he could roll over was when he was less than 1 year old, and I had brought him and my wife to a data center, where I was doing some contract work, one evening. We first knew he could roll over when we found that he had been on his back, but was suddenly on his stomach grabbing on to the cables between the disk drives and the mainframe :-) .

More seriously, there has *definitely* been a positive change in the Indian IT envronment over the last few years. In addition to seeing the immense positive strides in the knowledge and skills of the Indian engineers I have worked with in our (Sun’s) Bangalore office, it also becomes clear when you compare the kinds of questions I received when presenting sessions at the Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) conferences in 2007 and 2009. The first time around, most of the questions were pretty basic, but this year they were detailed, in depth, and very much focused on state of the art technologies.

That is all well and good for the Indian developer community. The advances you describe are *real*. Just keep in mind that the American developer community is evolving as well — among other endeavors I am helping out my son’s startup company build out some of their baseline technology, and the level of software development knowledge and skill among teens and 20-somethings in the U.S. continues to astound me.

Indian developers can astound me too! Keep it up!

]]> By: Ranjith K Avarachan http://www.thoughtclusters.com/2009/10/a-difference-between-indian-and-american-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-3442 Ranjith K Avarachan Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:08:22 +0000 http://www.thoughtclusters.com/?p=1138#comment-3442 Times haven't changed much .. it will take at least 10 more years to really bridge that gap between American programmers and Indian programmers. In India Might be the children from the Upper Class gets a chance to use computer early but the vast majority of the future potential programmers comes from the middle class families and lower class families and are not yet affordable to afford the idea of a Computer.. Times haven’t changed much .. it will take at least 10 more years to really bridge that gap between American programmers and Indian programmers. In India Might be the children from the Upper Class gets a chance to use computer early but the vast majority of the future potential programmers comes from the middle class families and lower class families and are not yet affordable to afford the idea of a Computer..

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