<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv=Content-Type> <STYLE>.hmmessage P { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } BODY.hmmessage { FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt } </STYLE> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.7600.16671"></HEAD> <BODY class=hmmessage> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>There are two things you need in order to become a good programmer:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>1: programming skills in general (some math included)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>2: Some, preferably much,  knowledge of the fields you are planning to program for.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>For example, if you wish to become a programmer in a specific field of mathematics, you must have knowledge of those mathematics in order to understand what you costumers want.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>As another example, if you want to develop administration system, you have to know what administration is about.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>If you want to program in the field of medical diagnostics, you should have some knowledge how doctors make their diagnoses.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Just like, in my opinion, pure sang managers are useless, pure sang programmers are useless as well. You have to know something about the field you are in. This holds both for programmers and managers, I think.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=402592714-04112010><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Jos</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>