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Hey so I know this is n of 1 and off-topic, but as a liberal arts student, I went from music to signal processing to music theory to music analytics to generati
by FiddlyPack 8y ago
Hey so I know this is n of 1 and off-topic, but as a liberal arts student, I went from music to signal processing to music theory to music analytics to generative music to software engineer. There can be a lot of STEM in non-STEM degrees. I did take a number of CS, acoustics, and electrical courses as a music major, but my degree still says music.
I know once-English majors with a similar story of a passion for what computing can reveal/create around a discipline that resulted in rich software careers. I am over a decade out of college, and in my personal experience passion for computing is more relevant than having a STEM background in software development. All this to say, I’m not sure % STEM focused is necessarily a reliable indicator of “future software engineer.”
- agentx3r 8y agoFor n=1, sure, not necessarily.
- busterarm 8y agoRoughly 1/3 of the engineers that I've encountered in my ~17 year career have music degrees (and one guy who went to ballet school and later wrote one of the most well-known O'Reilly books). And this is mostly on the ops side.
- cellularmitosis 8y agoThis seems to also be a running theme among clojurists, and the opening question on most episodes of the cognicast was inspired by this correlation.
- busterarm 8y agoOh man. I've never paid much attention to the Clojure community but Russ Olsen is great! Eloquent Ruby is probably in the top 5 as far as books that had an impact on my career.