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

[Ken Turner]

programming is - I agree just programming.
The quote from Michelangelo is amusing but wrong in interpretation.
Gerard Genette puts art into two categories - immanence and 
transcendendence.
Michelangelo found David in this way.
ken



On May 3, 2007, at 19:42, james jwm-art net wrote:

> 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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