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Poll: Do you have a CS degree?
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#22I graduated high school in 2009, went to college for a year, decided it wasn't for me. Dropped out, wasted a couple years before realizing I loved working with computers. Moved half-way across the country and started reading Craiglist. Got a job as the sole web-developer for a web-to-print company. I am doing interesting web development work right now and I'm loving it. I've finally found my start in this industry. I'm still young, but I can't see there being that much value for me in getting a degree. I'm ready to go, I'm ready to dive in and build stuff. I don't see any reason for putting on the brakes.
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#23doctorate in biochemistry. never had a CS class taught to me in my life, i just picked up various textbooks and learned as much as i could. while i still don't get RBTrees i've done more than i had ever expected as a professional computer scientist, including mentoring students, publishing, and even a patent.
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#24I believe currently in the process would have been a good option.
Sorry I missed your comment earlier, added :)
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#25I ignored a job advertised in the paper once because it said it required a master's in CS. I had a bachelor's in mathematics. The job was for a Unix kernel and system hacker at a company making Unix workstations. This was around 1984, when Unix internals experience was not widespread. Several months later, a headhunter sent me to interview for that job, which was still open because they hadn't been able to find anyon…
"or equivalent experience" is now a pretty standard addendum to the CS degree requirement.
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#26I don't have a degree at all, but I have been programming since the age of 9, completely self-taught. At first I found it difficult to find employment, but with enough work experience, degree or lack thereof no longer even comes up. The degree is a huge boon to getting your foot in whatever door you're looking at, but once in, suddenly becomes more or less irrelevant. However, this being said, I'm 37 and have been programming for what feels like forever, so my market entrance in the 90s may not parallel someone today. It may be more or less difficult; I have no idea.
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#27I do not have a CS degree because I am missing a single unimportant class. My advisor had told me that I could use a certain class to fill this requirement for both of my majors, but in reality the two majors required different classes for this requirement. I ended up with a math degree, though.
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#28I have both a CS degree and a non-cs degree, voted for both.
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#29software engineering here
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#30I'm "In Progress", I was doing contract work while I was still in high school and took two years off after high school to work at a variety of companies, then left a 6-figure job at 19 to go back to school and finish my degree so I wouldn't have a hard time finding jobs in the future (and because I knew that if I didn't do it then, which allowed me to graduate college the same year as my high school classmates, I would never do it).
I guess what I'm saying is I hope this poll ends up saying that while not a requirement, it's nice to have a degree (mine's going to be in Math/Economics) else I've definitely wasted some time and money :)