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To become a good programmer, one just needs very good logic (reasoning). No special degree is needed. If one wants to do specialized programming, then he/she should have the domain knowledge of that particular field. Thats all. Degree is immaterial.
Regards,
Pavanaja
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I dod not understand. Please clarify.
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Pavanaja
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I'm curious to know why they aren't separate options. Especially since there are so many branches in Engineering, some of which have little to do with Physics.
I was forced to choose between that and Math, but went for the former. Of course, being a CS Engg graduate influenced my decision.... 
Cheers,
Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar
"You still have the coolest name on CodeProject." — David Wulff to me.
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Actually Physics should be put under science.
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Pavanaja
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Actually Physic should have a section of its own.
After all, with Biology, its one father of many other science!
No, no, Math is just the midwife...
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Oops. My bad. I was thinking about programmer managers.
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David
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you're welcome. There is lot of fun with voting... Btw if you look at 13BOB12's posts you'll see that he is... retarded? Ignore please.
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 I think so, I love South Park-like humour but some people don't 
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Not many programmers are active sports people but I've always felt skateboarding is like programming.
When you have a stack its the same as encountering an error.
When you learn a new trick you leverage it with other tricks you know.
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Back in the day when I was hiring new programmers, or those that just needed some training to get started, I found that music Majors made the best programmers. They had the math skills, from music theory, and they still had the creative skills other artists. I would seperate music majors from other Arts, because they had a more traditional science like background, unlike other Arts majors, even though their artistic creativity still existed.
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I think the best background is enthyusiasm. I wanted to beckome programmer just 'cause i wanted to make my own rpg. And know look at me, i'm programming in OpenGL with OOP in C++. I hate to see someone who knows how to program and doesn't make any games.
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so you don't like me, i don't like you too... why posting as anonymous ? anything to hide ?
moreover, programming in "OpenGL with OOP in C++" don't make you a good programmer, and don't make your game better...
hate me, i don't care... there are so many interesting people on CodeProject...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
[toxcct][VisualCalc]
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nothing to hide, i forgot to sign in. And yeah why the hell did you replyed at all.
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(I don't know why your post got voted down. )
Enthusiasm is always good. I don't want programmers who are just doing it because 'it is a job'. I want people who live and breathe software development. People who really get off on providing software to make other peoples jobs easier and better.
I started programming commercially in the late 80's, but started off as hobbyist writing my own games for the ZX81 and Sinclair Spectrum, Dragon etc in the early 80's. So it is always nice to come hire people who started out the same way I did.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Next time, try not to insult fellow developers and try to write a coherent, well-written post, then you won't be modded down.
Your main point I agree with: enthusiasm translates into studious learning and self-teaching. Games are a major draw to programming, unfortunately its one of the toughest areas of software development.
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit.
I'm currently blogging about: Who is Jewish, the Trivia Game!
Judah Himango
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I don't mean it when i say "hate". I just think that programming isn't fun without games.
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Anonymous wrote:
I don't mean it when i say "hate".
but you wrote it, and that's what i understood. and visibly, i'm not the only one who voted you down, so your post was not clear enough...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
[toxcct][VisualCalc]
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I think so...
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Think the list may be freely expanded up to infinity.
Wrong is point of view. The background doesn't matter.
Programming is fate.
Believe the programmer that wrote his first program in 1965.
That times there were no university courses, people came to profession from different directions.
I've seen excelent programmers with metheorological or philological background, and mathematicians, that couldn't debug their own beast (they call it "program").
Gennady
My English is permanently under construction. Please, be patient.
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I agree - Background doesn't matter.
What matters is how the individual's brain is wired, and how diverse their background experience has been. This way they can see things from angles that others simply miss.
However, I do thing certain backgrounds will strengthen you ability to develop software in certain fields. For example, if you are writing software for military hardware, then a background in military hardware will obviously benefit your ability to deliver correct, well written code.
Basically, there are a mix of factors that make a good programmer, and background can be part of this mix. Those that choose Mathematics as a profession are likely to already be good a thinking logically, which is a core element of programming.
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Anonymous wrote:
What matters is how the individual's brain is wired, and how diverse their background experience has been. This way they can see things from angles that others simply miss.
This is exacly what I mean. The programming ability is not the part of, say, mathematical talant, it is something very independent.
And if you have it, it will drag you to programming from any other field of action.
Anonymous wrote:
However, I do think certain backgrounds will strengthen you ability to develop software in certain fields.
Not exactly. Nobody can promise you the same data domain all over the life.
And one of edges of programming capability is exactly this: be able to understand the problem from any field, quickly enter any data domain.
I'm in programming more than 40 year. Do you know, how many data domains I had to learn, and how many programming tools I had to use ?
And the only help of my mathematical background was, that I knew what is it - "modulo" - before learning any programming language.
Sure I exaggregate, but only a little bit.
Regards,
Gennady
My English is permanently under construction. Please, be patient.
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Engineering, Mathematics, Self-Taught, and Science all rolled into one. Definately should have been its own category.
Democracy is just a fancy word for mob rule, or 3 wolves and a sheep deciding whats for dinner.
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