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Discussion on: I’m a Liberal Arts Grad, and I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft, ask me anything!

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tiff

As a former humanities major, this is a great story. How was the transition from liberal arts to CS? Did the shift in thinking take long or was it something you just got right away?

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Julie Hubschman

Hi!

I actually took CS courses in college. I think how it was taught made the transition easier. I can't tell you how to reverse a binary tree, but I can read just about any computer program that is put in front of me.

So to answer, the transition was easy and yet hard. Easy, because anything can be put in a liberal arts perspective; Hard, because I don't have quite the same amount of technical gritty knowledge.

(I really hope I answered your question)

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tiff

You did! That's pretty great. Thank you.