Greenhorn in a sentence as a noun

The results are the same, and it's a lot less painful than greenhorn-TDD.

This is the type of industry where you have to go in and prove yourself out of greenhorn status. Once you do that, you earn yourself great coworkers and friends.

People don't often try to take advantage of them, even when one is senior and the other's a greenhorn. They know better.

That's why a greenhorn asks everyone how much they earn. Screw politeness and anglosaxon pride and whatnot.

Without an objective measure of skill and without knowing how "good" other people are its pretty hard for a greenhorn to know.

It helps me get a better understanding of the problem space, and since i'm still a greenhorn this understanding is critical. i am then grateful for the library and how easy it makes my life!

Too often it is used for greenhorn with no skills, while veterans with deep knowledge are branded in negative way. Someone who is 'passionate' is usually badly treated and works for peanuts.

I know it sucks, but I remember being a greenhorn and not knowing how to search for some syntax-laden error, which parts of that error would help me in Google, and so on. Some of it was brute force, and some of it was learning by example.

Personally, I would be thrilled to learn that a new company with greenhorn engineers could do this in a short amount of time. If the enabling factor is a group of aerospace veterans, that's great also.

Thank you for sharing it and helping open the minds of greenhorn idealists like myself." A sociopath-entrepreneur with an idea recruits just enough losers to kick off the cycle.

Considering all the hurdles that a 3 month startup has to overcome, is it really prudent to be taking on greenhorn 2nd year students looking for internships? They've got 3 months to get a finished product out the door, they need rockstars to make it happen, not unpaid interns.

It ended up as a mainstay in the playerbase for a long time, which meant I had to deal with release management and server capacity as a complete greenhorn. Later, when I quit the game, I simply released the codebase on the forums, hoping for some other idealistic soul to take over.

Maybe it's just my being a greenhorn talking, but I was under the impression that for loops and explicit recursion were "ugly" in functional-style code and you should instead use maps and reduces. While my iterative solution is functional in the sense that it doesn't have any external side-effects.

So I'm not surprised that expert gamers who have probably clocked in near 10,000 hours of virtual racing can beat comparatively greenhorn racers who know how to drive a car but don't have much actual racing experience.

-- This is in total conflict with the attitude of today's wet-behind-the-ears tenderfoot greenhorn who seems to think: Use stored procedures and triggers at every possible opportunity simply because you can.

If it was something he did as a greenhorn in the past, and now he's much better, then for God's sake don't punish him for a mistake he made years ago when he was put into a project that was more important than the skills he was hired with, unless he grossly lied about his skills.

Yeah, but it's interesting - the parable would definitely work better if Charlie were the super-experienced engineer who knows enough to value simplicity and Alan were the fresh-out-of-school greenhorn still impressed by fancy one-size-fits-all methodologies.

A greenhorn tradesperson way out in the middle of nowhere looking at some broken machinery and having no idea why it's failed, calling up their boss with 40 years of experience, and having the boss, sitting on a comfy couch back at the office, look at the problem, explain it and draw diagrams of how to fix it in 3d space infront of the greenhorn.

Greenhorn definitions

noun

an awkward and inexperienced youth

See also: rookie