RE: Educational areas to pursue

["Stevenson, Rebecca" <Rebecca -dot- Stevenson -at- workscape -dot- com>]

>Who wants to go from being an accomplished techwriter to being a newbie 
programmer? Not me. If an employer is suggesting I take programming, 
sounds like they really wanted to hire a programmer who could write. 

To which I respond: not necessarily. This morning a writer I know confessed to me that the developer's specs were "Greek" because he doesn't know any of the Java terminology involved, let alone how a developer would use them. How is he supposed to document this system?

>Relational databases -- sure, but approach it from 
the position of a writer, not as a neophyte database administrator.

And the difference is...? 

Rebecca



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