Have Liberal Arts Degree, Will Code

Re:Have Liberal Arts Degree, Will Code by bitwize on Friday March 14, 2014 @02:02PM (#7400639)

Hum majors who take up coding are more than welcome to try,but they should be warned: programming is hard. It's easier than multivariable calculus, but there there ARE right and wrong answers, and you WILL come a point when you'll hit a wall and be frustrated, and you need to have the perseverance to get through those points. If this is to be your career you need to commit to a virtual lifetime of learning and growing.

Also, start with Python. I know some of you think it's neat to jump right in with JavaScript and make cool animations and dynamic web pages, but -- I'm from the future. You should start with Python.

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Re:Have Liberal Arts Degree, Will Code by tekalon on Friday March 14, 2014 @03:02PM (#7401016)

I cam from History to IT. I can agree with this and still struggle with it at times.

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Re:Have Liberal Arts Degree, Will Code by bitwize on Friday March 14, 2014 @03:40PM (#7401263)

Well, really, the only difference between people like me, who have been doing this for most of our natural lives, and people like you is that we've run into a bunch more walls and now act like it's no big d. But the initial frustration as a n00b can be killer.

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