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Funny you should mention that. At my college (Cal Poly) I had fraternity brothers who were Civil Engineering majors. They would look up to me because I had a na
by RichardCA 6y ago
Funny you should mention that. At my college (Cal Poly) I had fraternity brothers who were Civil Engineering majors. They would look up to me because I had a natural ease with computers. But in the end, I watched them sweat their way through classes that would have wasted me.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoMany engineering fields are ones were being studious and knowledgeable can give you a solid career. Software development has a lot more upside potential for the flexibly creative and the lucky.
- nafey 6y agoI feel this is less and less true for Frontend Development which is constantly evolving and you need to put in some serious effort to stay up to date.
- phlipski 6y agoThis the engineering corollary of "The grass is always greener". For engineers it's "The other engineering disciplines are always harder"!
- RichardCA 6y agoWhich is another way of saying that the "advanced" subjects (vector calculus, multivariable calculus, fourier transforms) really aren't that bad if you're prepared to put the work in.
- astura 6y agoProbably because most people choose to study what comes easy to them.
- RichardCA 6y agoI think the key is finding an intuitive way to grasp the subject matter, and then it doesn't feel like such a grind. If material like this had been available 20 years ago it would have made a huge difference. https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY
- sk2020 6y agoIf you can do both, I highly recommend it. Programming abilities can multiply your productivity in another field several times.