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- From: haidinyk@dt.wdc.com (Pete Haidinyak)
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- Subject: Re: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst?
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 16:48:38 GMT
- Organization: Western Digital
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- In message <4j23pj$mco@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> - jdonovn@ix.netcom.com (Joe
- Donovan) writes:
- :>
- :>Stuart.Johnston@Chrysalis.org wrote:
- :>
- :>> I am currently a Junior in High School and have been
- :>>considering becoming a Systems Programmer/Analyst. I've read books
- :>>about it but I would like to get some first hand information from real
- :>>people with experience in this field. General information, including
- :>>job responsibilities, education needed, and salary would be
- :>>appreciated. I am specifically wondering about how much math I would
- :>>need. I don't really like to do math but I am fairly good at it.
- :>>Many people say that to be a programmer, you need a lot of math
- :>>skills, but I wonder if that is true. I'd like to know specifically
- :>>what type of math is used and how it is applied.
- :>
- I was a junior in high school (1974) when I fell in love with programming.
- What I can say for my experiences as a programmer is that you should love
- sitting in front of a computer and solving problems. As for math skills,
- depending on what you a coding for might be important, but from what I have
- seen, most of your code will be user interface, error detection, and I/O.
- My suggestion to you would be to get a compiler and start pounding
- out code. Start with small project to learn the language syntax and use, and
- grow from there.
- Good luck!
-
- Pete
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