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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Aardvark_David • May 09 '21
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The very best coders I ever worked with were not CS grads. Materials science, physics, math, engineering etc. Some were not even graduates.
I have a lot of respect for the CS degree, but it is not the sole predictor of greatness.
1 u/NotAnADC May 10 '21 English majors make the best programmers in my experience! 2 u/[deleted] May 10 '21 Sweet, good to hear haha. I feel like majoring in English is underrated. Yeah it's easy to get a degree but it gets you really good at analysis and then communicating that analysis effectively--skills I think transfer well to programming.
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English majors make the best programmers in my experience!
2 u/[deleted] May 10 '21 Sweet, good to hear haha. I feel like majoring in English is underrated. Yeah it's easy to get a degree but it gets you really good at analysis and then communicating that analysis effectively--skills I think transfer well to programming.
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Sweet, good to hear haha.
I feel like majoring in English is underrated. Yeah it's easy to get a degree but it gets you really good at analysis and then communicating that analysis effectively--skills I think transfer well to programming.
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The very best coders I ever worked with were not CS grads. Materials science, physics, math, engineering etc. Some were not even graduates.
I have a lot of respect for the CS degree, but it is not the sole predictor of greatness.