But software development (coding in general) is often though of as
artistic in nature. I read somewhere (I am sure a search of google
would produce it) an article that said a disproportional number of
programmers were left handed. Additionally, an even more
disproportional percentage played a musical instrument.
Indeed.
http://www.fula.co.uk/about/nigeBiog.html I'm not left-handed
though. Apparantly my Grandfather was, but he was made to use his right hand
at school - something about left-handedness being akin to being posessed by
the Devil!
A quote from the article that has always stuck with me was "Programing
is an art, where your palette is logic.
I have always felt that programming is the bridge between science and art,
and other programmers I have mentioned this to have agreed.
You have programmers that are programers because they went to school,
then you have programmers that write code the way Picasso painted.
{{shudder}} We've all seen their code! I'd be quite keen to adopt a Dali
style myself... Now, I want a clock on my website, but it has to melt! ;-)
I work with a very talented designer from time to time, and the amount of
times I have had to tell him to stop and take a step back, and remind him
that designing for the web is not like designing for print. He is getting
better, though - especially since someone showed him one of his designs on
Opera with plenty of zoom!
Cheers,
Nige
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