BS Math, BA Philosophy, EMT-B certification.
Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?
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#82No degree, some CS classes, lots of books.
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#83No degree. Taught myself how to code when I was kid. Started a Computer Engineering degree, but I would get bored and stopped going to class. Switched to Econ, but never finished that. Started taking classes I wanted in an order and grouping that was never going to get me a degree. So I left. I've been a programmer ever since.
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#84Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I graduate in May, looking forward to working full time on my startup after that.
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#85I dropped out of college after my freshman year to join a startup. I've been doing programming and general IT work ever since (~8 years).
After taking some more classes part-time, I've probably got about 1/2 the requirements for a degree in mathematics from a couple of different schools, but never seem to find the time to go back full-time and finish it out.
I do work at the college I dropped out of all those years, ago, though.
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#86BASc in EE from University of Toronto; immediately followed with my first start-up
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#87Still in college for CS but plan to complete course work on part-time, I've been programming since I was 14 professionally. (A friend of my father had an SEO startup and needed a script kiddie for PERL/JS/HTML stack. He bought me any book I wanted and payed 15/hour. Purely self-taught, but higher level mathematics and discrete theory have improved my programming beyond anything else I've taken.)
Computers are made for making life easier, and in a capitalism that equates to making money if you can teach a computer to do a human job. Just waiting for that dynamite concept to take to market.
I love this site btw.
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#88AS Computer Science - Penn State York
7 years out of college. Web programmer for a startup. Still learning the ropes, hoping to have my own startup someday.
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#89B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi. Programmer Analyst at FedEx Services.
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#90no degree for me. i started programming in my early teens with vb, worked for an isp during high school doing unix sysadmin and perl/php programming. after high school i didn't bother with college and just continued at the isp for a number of years doing perl/php/ruby programming. i left there two years ago to become self-employed doing software development.