http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Programmer-.html&Itemid=29
I thought that this was a very interesting article. +20Million to this point “I often get personally asked, and see the question come up online a
lot, what courses a person should take in college if they want to
become a professional programmer. I took a fairly broad range of
classes in college (Caltech), and have been programming for 30 years
now, so I have some perspective on what has worked for me and what
hasn’t. …………. Chemistry – I never properly understood chemistry. This deficit doesn’t
seem to have mattered in my career. Chemistry seemed to be more
oriented towards memorization, and trial and error. I don’t think that
applies much to programming.”