If I only had a mathematical brain...

I'd love to program.  I really would.  But my mind isn't cut out for it.  I've seen people who think mathematically, and I'm not one of them.  I keep  getting stuck on Trig due the to stress from each lesson that adds on top of the previous lesson.  Inane equations within equations, combined with my short memory span and occasional absent-minded backwards thinking means I have to try three times harder than someone who has math "come naturally" to them.  Instead, I have a more creative mind, endlessly thinking and imagining.  I believe this the opposite end of some spectrum, as these math wizards I've met seem to be less creative and more mechanical in thinking.

I was thinking of Game Designer as a possible option, as I can appreciate programming and understand it overall, but can't do the code for shit.  But with creativity I could create a design that programmers can work with.  The only problem is I'll be trying to work in a computer field without a CS degree, and would get little respect for not knowing the details of what a programmer is talking about.

Yeah my post was in reference to:

>>most of these algorithms have pathological cases where they behave much more badly than the naive implemention (eg quick sort on an already sorted sequence).

Merge sort has the same average complexity as quicksort without the quadratic disaster (as my overly melodramatic algorithms lecturer put it).

Merge sort also has the benefit of being easily applied to lists as opposed to arrays - just the thing for a budding Lisp freak :D

In fact I might try that this weekend. See how many lines of code it takes.