[throwback]

I’m sure that’s often true. I don’t know if it fits with your argument, but the best software engineers I’ve met (better than me) were always Math, Philosphy or other type majors. Actually I was a physics major and dumped into CS because I found I liked programming when I started taking it as a tool for Physics. I think many people jumped into CS for the money, and didn't really like it.

[rarestia]

I learn programming at a much slower rate than what they expected from me in college. After all-nighters trying to write something ridiculously simple, I gave up. Nowadays, I can program a website in PHP and edit canned-code from SourceForge without an issue. I actually enjoy debugging. It’s getting the code down on a blank slate that I struggle with. If someone gets it started for me, I can fill in the blanks.