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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

