So much of what I know about problem-solving, creativity, how to handle frustration, how to be skeptical of my own hubris, how complex systems behave, how human relationships work, how to communicate, how to help, how to be kind — I could go on — I learned from writing software.
Programming helped prepare me to be a parent, a spouse, a musician, a citizen, a human.
Liberal arts education, including computer science: we are whole human beings, and everything’s connected to everything.
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