Music makes good developers

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Published July 24, 2006

Dave Thomas gives an interesting answer to what he thinks makes a good programmer:

I have seen a strong correlation between people who have some music in their background and programming skills. I have no idea why, but I suspect that some of the areas of the brain that make someone musical also make them good at software development. #
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  1. Stevie July 24, 2006 at 11:51 pm

    Music has structure, and has a readable layout. In order for code to follow, it must be displayed in a way that is readable to others. Perhaps this is why music has a connection with programming.

  2. Gene Peters July 25, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    Music has more than just structure. It has the same abstract properties as mathematics. I am not surprised that most of the programmers said they thought mathwas helpful. There was time, back in the 1950’s-1960’s when it was thought that only those trained in mathematics could understand programming.

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