I didn't know you could do that

This article from Worse Than Failure is a humorous and probably apocryphal story of a truly abysmal programmer called Megan. No, I don't think it's sexist, particularly, but if it makes you feel better to think so, then have at it ...

I have met programmers as clueless as poor Megan. Some, even, were Masters candidates. It just goes to show that a university education can be wasted. Any person wanting to enter a computer science program (or for that matter any curriculum where programming might be involved) should take a problem-solving aptitude test beforehand. Do less than the 90th percentile--find another major. But, of course, that's an overly simplistic view. In real life the sub-90s are management material.