On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:02:25 -0500, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> wrote:

>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Howard Brazee
>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:48 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: What do you call...
>
>>I got my Certificate in Data Processing back when.  I doubt it helped
>me any, but I don't know for sure.    Does that mean I could call
>myself an engineer?
>
>I got my certificate in mathematics in 1967 from North Carolina State
University.  All the calculus classes I took haven't helped me very much in
my programming career, either.
>
>Bill Fairchild
>Rocket Software
>

I have a B.Sc. in Math from UTArlington. My "Analysis of Variance" courses
were very helpful. They were all about how to do mathematical proofs. Step
by step. Miss a step or do one wrong and the teacher gave you NO credit.
Much like programming.

--
John

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