Two out of three developers are self-taught, and other trends from a survey

Re:Two out of three developers are self-taught, and other tr... by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:36PM (#11399453)

My education as an EE was somewhat similar. Before starting any EE classes, I took 4 physics courses, two chemistry, three English/composition/Literature (would have been 4 but I tested out of Engl101) courses, and one History course (that I failed and had to repeat because I blew it off). Then we can get into the stuff I only know I took because it's on my transcript. Stuff I forgot all about because it was never actually "used" like Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Linear Analysis, and Math, Math, Math. I think the only time I didn't have anything that looked like a math class was the semester right before graduation.

Somewhere in there I took a few actual EE courses.

Guess which ones had the most impact on my career? Hint: it ain't the EE stuff (although I worked as an EE for 6 years after graduation).

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Re:Two out of three developers are self-taught, and other tr... by gravypod on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:16PM (#11400281)

The difference I see is that EE is a math field. The concepts of EE can only be represented as numbers and math.

Computer science is only focused on logic and algorithms with state.

It's not really math.

But in the end I DON'T mind math classes, I like math classes. I mind stupid English, Lit, and Phil, classes.

I'll probably go for a math minor. I like it. But I'm not going to for a English minor.

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