From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 09:47:13 MDT
On 9/3/01 11:25 PM, "Robert Coyote" <coyyote@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> What if I may ask have been your pet deadly presumptions, my most recent
> to be dispelled is: {programming is very difficult, takes high
> intelligence, and you must be very good at mathematics to do so}
The problem is that people confuse "programming" with "software
engineering". I would agree that anyone can do programming (for better or
worse), but depending on the problem, software engineering can require a
great deal of intelligence and expertise in obtuse theory.
Learning mathematics with CS is a throwback to when computers were largely
used for mathematical computation and is mostly unnecessary these days.
>From a work environment perspective, you'd do as well with accounting or
business as a supporting minor to CS, IMHO. When I was doing engineering
programming many years ago knowing advanced calculus was useful, but most of
the world wants people to write programs to support business function these
days.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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