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Originally Posted by dar512
I took one of these things at Washington University. They were very thorough. The tests were hours long. The results came back and the counselor said he had never seen such obvious results before. The interest tests said I scored really strongly with computer programmers and my numeric and logic scores were very good. I had never considered programming as a career before and barely knew what they did. I started taking computer programming courses and started as a programmer less than a year later. I've worked at some very cool companies- Aldus, Spyglass and I've gotten to meet some really cool people.
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I walked into the computer room in my junior year of college, ran some teaching programs for BASIC, and decided to start taking programming courses. I still graduated with a liberal arts degree, but I followed up with a computer trade school.
Including the mandatory training at my first job, I learned COBOL 3 times.
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