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I agree to some extent, but I've also had to support code written by people with degrees in physics, math, and mechanical engineering who thought they were programmers. Just because someone does something for their job doesn't mean they do it well...

Joel C
– Joel C

2011-07-18 21:39:28 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 21:39
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I've seen plenty of bad code written by CS students. I've seen amazing code written by people from math or physics or whatever. There is pretty much no correlation between what exactly you studied and the quality of your code.

jhocking
– jhocking

2011-07-18 21:49:11 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 21:49
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also, go biology!

jhocking
– jhocking

2011-07-18 21:49:56 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 21:49

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