LISTENING WORKING IN A SOFTWARE HOUSE 1 PET 3.19 You will hear a man called Paul talking on the radio about his typical day as a programmer. For each question put a tick in the correct box. You will listen to the extract twice. 1. Paul has been working in the computer industry for a. about 13 years. b. over 13 years. c. over 14 years. 2. He starts working at a. 8.30. b. 8.40. c. 9.15. 3. He works in a. hardware. b. software design. c. software marketing. ACTIVITIES 4. He is actually working on a program for a. making calculations. b. the car industry. c. training carpenters. 5. The program will be released next a. month. b. year. c. summer. 6. He spends all the morning a. debugging the program. b. writing the code. c. on the phone with the contractor. 2 You will hear a conversation between two colleagues discussing the use of debuggers. Decide if each sentence is correct (yes) or incorrect (no). You will hear the recording twice. Yes No Both Jane and Mike use debuggers. Jane says that Torvalds uses debuggers. Jane says that you can discover bugs immediately with a debugger. Both agree on the fact that debuggers do not detect high level problems. Mike learnt alone how to use a debugger. Both agree on the fact that debuggers are not essential in code writing. PET 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 3.20 142 Module 3 UPDATING