Hi,
Carmen Bianca Bakker carmenbianca@fsfe.org writes:
- You do not need to be good at maths to be a decent software engineer.
Thank you for pointing that out. I completely forgot about that. I always play this little game with students where I ask them which subject they think is the most important to become a programmer and they usually think it is math. They are often very surprised when I tell them it is English and a little bit of logic.
The first should hopefully scare off gamers who would have a miserable time doing software engineering.
I am always very carful in scaring people. I completely understand what you mean and I don't disagree with your general idea, but there are plenty of people who got into coding because of games and have a lot of fun. But on a similar note: No matter which profession people are interested in, I usually recommend doing multiple internships to find out what suits you best. Even if it takes a whole year of doing nothing but different internships, it is worthwhile because starting something and then realizing halfway through it is not the right thing, takes much more time than some internships.
I sometimes even go so far as to tell them that if an intern leaves after an internship and knows they never want to touch a computer again, I see that as a success (unless it is because my mentoring was so terrible) because it means someone knows one field they are _not_ interested in.
Happy hacking! Florian