RE: Future Programmers - The future of IBM i -- MIDRANGE-L

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For once, I agree with Paul :-)

Throughout my (modestly successful) career in IBMi, I've relied far more heavily on my business undergraduate than on my comp sci masters (earned after I had been programming RPG for many years). It's nice to know how to write a parser when you need one, though. :-)

DK

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 10:08 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Future Programmers - The future of IBM i

Bill,

I might suggest that when you reach out to students, you go after some that have been business majors. I've always maintained that it's easier to teach a business major to program business applications than it is to teach somebody with a computer science degree.

There's a big difference between creating balance sheets and income statements and writing compilers.

:-))

Paul Nelson
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