[NetBehaviour] Is programming an art or a science? Part II.

[james jwm-art net]

I'm going to reply to this without reading the article and say:

programming is a science if you don't know art, an art if you don't
know science. but to be honest, for me it's just programming. i'll
read it now.

james.

On 3/5/2007, "marc" <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:

>Is programming an art or a science? Part II.
>
>In Part I of this 2 part series I put forth a standard argument about
>how programming is a science. In this part I want to explore an argument
>that says programming is an art. As I mentioned in Part I, this is a
>thought that I didn’t even entertain until I was a good number of years
>into my career as a programmer. At this point, maybe the argument has
>some validity. I’ll let each of you make your own decision…
>
>This topic came up recently as my oldest daughter started looking into
>colleges. She is a high school senior, due to graduate in just a few
>weeks. As we looked at colleges I noticed several schools giving
>Bachelor of Arts degrees for computer science majors. In fact, according
>to this page at Wikipedia, there are many different degrees that are all
>considered more or less the same. Anyway, seeing the Bachelor of Arts
>degree made me think about the argument of whether programming is an art
>or a science, so naturally I had to create a couple of blog entries
>about it!
>
>more
>http://wapurl.co.uk/?7Q2LMZO
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