>I guess that would make me a hybrid. My degree is Chemical Engineering with heavy course work in CS as well. Of course that was in the days before PCs but just after punch cards. I was fortunate that Texas A&M had just started letting us use terminals the year I started taking the courses. I had courses in Fortran and Basic. I kind of figured I had some talent for programming while watching my wife-to-be sit at a terminal trying to hammer out a cobol program and telling her every mistake she was making along the way. While she was grateful, she still became most annoyed.

Hi Mark,

Geez, I never realized we had something besides FoxPro in common.

I'm a hybrid too. I started in Chemical Engineering, then went to Liberal Arts in the late '60s in Chicago. Back then, computers were as big as convenience stores and guarded by guys in white coats. I didn't get interested in them until a friend showed me some stuff on a TRS-80 in 1979. I was hooked. Seven years later, I went back to school and studied Computer Science at Kennesaw State here in Georgia. Without that, I don't think I'd have been anywhere near as successful at this as I've been.

Even so, after I got out of school, I went through a period where I got real stupid. Had an awful time developing systems. That stopped as soon as I realized that I wasn't applying what I had been taught at Kennesaw. As soon as I did, things got much easier.

I'll even go as far to say that, for me, the transition from FPW to VFP has been relatively easy. I haven't experienced the "steep learning curve" that has plagued many. I credit that to the understanding I gained at school.