Gregory's Server@yabellini This is fascinating. Not entirely unrelated: back in the 90's the top dog of the company that gave me my first programming job told me that classical musicians made the best programmers. His argument was to do with aptitude for reading musical notation.
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 Over the years, I have met a number of people who say that musical talent correlates with programming. And I've often said that musical notation is a simple programming language — with loops and conditional execution. I've been considered quite adept at programming, and have devoted my life to it. But I've always been terrible at music, and hopelessly bad at learning human languages. So I'm not sure … 🤔 @JeffGrigg @alanbuxton I am sorry but I am not aware of any studies that relate music skills to learning to program. Over the years, I've heard a number of people claim that music skills correlate with programming skills. Here is a discussion of it, with some references to (semi-)related studies: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1570/are-programmers-likely-to-be-musicians @yabellini @JeffGrigg @alanbuxton Has anyone tried? There's a lot of anecdotes about, but usually people say its because music is a form of applied mathematics, the utility of which is called into question by this new research. However, its also true that (classical) musicians learn many phrases in Italian and a small amount of Italian grammar. @celesteh @yabellini @alanbuxton It seems, from what little objective study information I've seen, that "smart people" are generally good at a number of things, typically including, music, computer programming, math, and other things too. I'm not seeing objective evidence that practicing music or programming will directly make you better at the other. |
@alanbuxton @yabellini When I started in IT (with a modern languages degree) in the late 80s/early 90s, the industry was expanding rapidly and needed to recruit from a wide range of backgrounds as there weren't enough CS graduates. So there were lots of liberal arts grads and women entering the field. It was only when universities ramped up CS grad production that the tech bros started to fill all the available entry-level roles.
Must admit I miss the intellectual diversity we had back then.