> What civil engineers need with all this programming is beyond me.
One of my best friends and expartner and top civil-structural engineers in the country (he built Dallas Reunion Arena and many other complex structures) was an ace programmer in many languages. He was not willing to just accept the results of canned packages, he wanted to know where the answers came from and make software that made sense to his engineers. I presume you are young and if you wish to be an engineer and not a salesman you must be eaten up with the desire to know "How Stuff Works". Computers are ubiquitous in engineering and if you want to be the best, learn how they work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
