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I was able to code real-life assembly in my teens. But I felt something was missing, that's why I went the engineering path: maths, physics and chemistry. I sti
by sylware 4y ago
I was able to code real-life assembly in my teens. But I felt something was missing, that's why I went the engineering path: maths, physics and chemistry. I still believe it was the right choice.
This is were the real stuff happens.
99% of programming out there is high-school level, the remaining 1%, you need at least a college degree, because it is real maths (not high-school calculus).
That said, based on my experience, be very careful when using the word "mathematics", because in the mind of tons of ppl, "mathematics" = calculus...
- gausswho 4y agoThanks for sharing this. I went through a similar arc, substituting Assembly with late 90's html/js/css. I initially enjoyed it but ultimately found it all a pretty shallow pool. Lacking the sublime. So in college I cold-shouldered the CS department in favor of the Math. I ended up deeply enjoying abstract algebra and cryptology. I then left college with a larger student debt payment than rent. I didn't see a financially stable path with the tools I'd honed. In desperation I took a basic web shop job. A software engineering career transpired. A couple decades later, on strange days, I sometimes wonder how I ended up stuck in the shallow pool, or if that's even such a bad thing.
- sylware 4y agoif that path taught me something: when dealing with the web, resist the Rube Goldberg Machine temptation: noscript/basic (x)html only!