[PLUG] Slightly OT: PCC software engineering program

[Jeff Schwaber]

> >   Some of the best programmers I've worked with didn't have programming
> > degrees.  One guy had degree in Theatrical Arts. 
> 
> I suspect that good programmers are born, not made :).  In any case all
> the book learning in the world won't make a good programmer.  It is a
> craft, not a science.  That may change, just as other crafts have
> succumb to industrialization and automation but not yet.  We keep trying
> to come up with ways to automate the process or at least remove the
> "art", Structured Programming, 4GL, 5GL, Object Oriented Programming,
> whatever else.  I can't see that they make all that much difference.

yeah, it's probably true. Although an analytical mindset really helps in
debugging, it is a craft.

Best programmer I've met: Russian Studies degree.

Me: Computer Science and Theater. =)

Jeff