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Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by huherto » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:11 PM UTC

BS Computer information systems, University of Chihuahua (in Mexico); MS Computer information science, University of Michigan.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by jgrahamc » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:14 PM UTC

BA in Mathematics and Computation and then a DPhil in Computer Security. Oxford University.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by pkaler » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:21 PM UTC

BSc Computing Science. Simon Fraser University.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by bkrausz » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:21 PM UTC

Sophomore undergrad at Carnegie Mellon University. No desire/plan for grad school...I'm thrilled that I'll be done in a little over a year.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by kashif » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:24 PM UTC

BS, Finance - run and hack in a small software firm.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by systems » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:24 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #18

iamwil wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How'd you end up writing a programming language?

You can't be in this business without being passionate about it. Well...I guess you can, but I think everyone on this site falls into the 'passionate' category. And with that comes the ability to pick things up on your own, which is in any case pretty much a necessity for this field, as many aspects of it change frequently. One of the wonderful things about this field is how much is possible to do on your own, if you…

hey a Tcl'er :)

Tcl is the best lisp tell them the truth, enlighten their braces crippled souls :PpP

But seriously, Tcl is a very smart language, one can only wish it was used more.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by thorax » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:25 PM UTC

BS, CompSci, University of Memphis

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by systems » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:27 PM UTC

BA in Management Information System, MBA sorbonne/dauphine (mbaip.com)

Programmer ... hmmm ... someday I will!

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by secorp » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:32 PM UTC

BA UC Berkeley in Mathematics '93, MBA NYU Stern '06, run a small startup and still get to hack

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by geebee » Thu, Feb 07, 2008, 5:33 PM UTC

BA English, UC San Diego BA Math, UC Santa Cruz (strange case, they let me finish the double English/Math major at a different university - I did about half of the Math at UCSD and the other half at UCSC) MS Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - UC Berkeley

Still learning, of course...