Tim, I'm sure they did. Professors' opinions generally don't hold much weight with me, considering how often I've had to deal with less-than-as-competent-as-expected graduates. Generally, the people who are, in fact, suited for this field wouldn't bother to ask a professor, not needing the reassurance such questioning would bring. Programming is both art and engineering; the field is crowded with people who excel in art (and are sloppy programmers - artists who don't realise the lines are there for a reason) or engineering (who are boring programmers, grunts who get confused when the problem requires that you draw outside the lines). Neither one is very satisfactory in the real world. In my honest opinion - being on the opposite side of the world, it's not likely our paths will cross - you're destined for the engineering side, unable to handle new problems without being prepared beforehand. (The fact that you asked your professors is a clue in this direction. An artist would say "Ha! Who are you to judge!" and a true programmer would say, "Yeah, right, what do you know, I'll code my number-to-text converter on my own, and add internationalization just to show you, you punk.")
Can you change direction? Sure you can. People do it all the time. But right now your degree would be paper, and you'd be great for generating code from pseudocode and UML, almost as good as something like Together/CC, except a lot more expensive and moody. Who wants to be replaceable? >From: "Tim Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: what my professors said about this.... >Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:01:45 +1000 > >Hi Joseph, > >thanks for your opinion but 2 of my professors have actually said that I >can succeed in IT/software development. > > ----------------------------------------------- Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Save Bandwidth! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
