[RAMAddict]

Hey. I love computers, I love working with them, and I love programming. I also like math, but I'm not the greatest math student, I not the greatest here. Anyone else in the same situation but is a professional programmer of some sort?

[Chicon]

Hi RAMAddict,

There is no need to reach 150 IQ to be a programmer. I love math and computers and I write programs for my company. Programming is a hobby for me and intricate algorithms make me happy I never attend a programming school, I learned all the necessary stuff by myself and I am still learning now as computer technology is running fast forward. But to get my job, I don't hide that I had a lot of examinations, interviews, trial periods. The motivation is the keyword.

[coderitr]

I got C's in algebra, trigonometry, geometry. I made an F but got a in calculus the first time. The second time I took calculus I dropped the course after scoring a 23 (out of 100) on the first exam. I've been a professional software developer for 12 years.

Some times its the breaks you get. I wasn't fully qualified for my first IS job. It was COBOL programming with embedded DB2 and CICS. I knew very little of DB2 or relational databases and had never heard of CICS. The interviewer told me later that he had hired me because of my determination.

[dsovic]

Addict to computers and programming and never finished any college or faculty. Although I have quite high IQ (according to those funny questions from MENSA and similar orgs). What is most important is to catch the clue how something could be solved. I always say: Take a pencil and paper, try to solve problem with them. If You can, programming is to use the same steps for computer. Break steps into commands that computer language allows (interesting, even OOP is same, only on a little higher level)