I'm going to reply to this without reading the article and say: programming is a science if you don't know art, an art if you don't know science. but to be honest, for me it's just programming. i'll read it now.
james. On 3/5/2007, "marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is programming an art or a science? Part II. > >In Part I of this 2 part series I put forth a standard argument about >how programming is a science. In this part I want to explore an argument >that says programming is an art. As I mentioned in Part I, this is a >thought that I didnât even entertain until I was a good number of years >into my career as a programmer. At this point, maybe the argument has >some validity. Iâll let each of you make your own decision⦠> >This topic came up recently as my oldest daughter started looking into >colleges. She is a high school senior, due to graduate in just a few >weeks. As we looked at colleges I noticed several schools giving >Bachelor of Arts degrees for computer science majors. In fact, according >to this page at Wikipedia, there are many different degrees that are all >considered more or less the same. Anyway, seeing the Bachelor of Arts >degree made me think about the argument of whether programming is an art >or a science, so naturally I had to create a couple of blog entries >about it! > >more >http://wapurl.co.uk/?7Q2LMZO >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
