Andy Lacey
andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Mon May 11 12:03:30 CDT 2009
Hi Max, how're you doing? I used to set a couple of practical tests. The first was to give them some Access code with faults in it and leave them for a while asking them to critique it. You can throw in what you want, from not Dim'ing vars or not closing recordsets to logic or calculation errors. Whatever fits your bill. The second was to give them an app which crashed when you ran it and tell them to fix it. Nothing too trivial but it should show problem solving capabilities and experience with debug. You could deliberately remove error handlers and see if they put them in. The tests didn't distinguish the good from the great, but they did get rid of the blaggers. Had one guy who took exception to being asked to do such menial tests when he had blah-blah years experience, but we insisted, put him in a quiet room and when I went in half an hour later to see how he was doing he'd legged it. Didn't hear from him again. -- Andy --------- Original Message -------- From: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] MS Access Skills Assessment and Testing Date: 11/05/09 15:15 Developer - definitely. Max -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: 11 May 2009 15:37 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] MS Access Skills Assessment and Testing I think it depends on how this person's going to use Access -- are they going to be a user or a developer? Susan H. >I would start with a simple database with one form. Set the form up with > some code that does a calculation but set the underlying data so that it > causes an 'Invalid use of Null' or a divide by zero in the calculation > code. Let the candidate debug it while you watch. You should be able to > tell pretty quickly how familiar they are with Access. > > Doug Steele -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2