[tstarr]

Funny - I did my masters thesis and had to punch a full box (2000 cards) of data. Fairly straightforward program, but lots of data. When I found out I could read that into a data file and read that instead of feeding the box of cards every time, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven! :-)

Actually, some of the best programmers I’ve worked with have had “odd” majors like music and philosophy. Go figure... Music I can kind of understand, but philosophy surprised me a bit. I guess it was the logic part of philosophy.

[CottonBall]

Funny - I did my masters thesis and had to punch a full box (2000 cards) of data. Fairly straightforward program, but lots of data. When I found out I could read that into a data file and read that instead of feeding the box of cards every time, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven! :-)

Same here - the first year I got to use a terminal to input my program was SO wonderful.

Actually, some of the best programmers I’ve worked with have had “odd” majors like music and philosophy. Go figure... Music I can kind of understand, but philosophy surprised me a bit. I guess it was the logic part of philosophy.

Now that you mention it, that makes sense. Logic is required for programming above anything else, IMO. And it needs to be pretty intuitive - hard to teach on the job. Majors like engineering and math - and even music and philosophy - will teach that throughout the 4 years in school. Now it makes sense why Lenny (Lenny the Liberal, we called him - poor guy got a lot of razzing) was doing s/w.

[patton]

Philosophy is Greek for Math, and music is an extension of same.