Both are invisible moving architecture - and music IS pure math looked at one way ... any hook in any song can be reduced to the math that torques your brain in the right way ... it's like legos ... but the legos must move ... and ... you can't see the legos ... but there is a language to represent the legos. Bach would have loved loved loved it. Courtney Love or the Dixie Chicks probably not so much.
For anyone who already knows they find it programmy-stuff interesting ... like people who like playing with excel spreadsheets ... I say go for it.
Any of you who have poor starving Jazz musician sons ... is 14K too much to pay to get them permanently out of your house? It's a no brainer given the cost of a degree. It's just that you have to actually find it interesting.
I've heard that music is math, but that's not my experience.
I'm a magna cum laude graduate of Berklee College of Music.I LOVE music theory -- a real theory nerd. But I've always sucked at math. I'm dead in the water without a calculator even to do basic arithmatic.
As for programming, I've learned just enough HTML to post links and images on FR. But that's the extent of my "skill," which isn't saying much.
IMHO it certainly is. My reasoning is that if Dad pays for it, all it is only another passing fancy. There is no motivation.
If the student pays the $14k on his own, there is motivation. And, there is a job at the end of the course. Because there was motivation.