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Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?
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#12High school kids don't have degrees yet ;)
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#13I'm currently on a break from school while I move and get settled with a new job (software developer at a near-Silicon Valley startup). I'm going back this fall to work on my BS in Comp Sci at CSU Fresno.
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#14I'm 3/4 of the way through my Bachelor of Computing degree at the University of Guelph. Taking some time off right now to work on my start-up.
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#15No degree, I left for Italy afer a few years of Italian courses at the University of Oregon. I have worked as a programmer for 11 years.
How'd you end up writing a programming language?
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#16Computer Engineer degree from the University of Ottawa
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#17AA Liberal Arts!
Applied for it after I had started programming professionally. (Already had the credits, so why not? ;-)
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#18No degree, I left for Italy afer a few years of Italian courses at the University of Oregon. I have worked as a programmer for 11 years.
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 have a computer a decent internet connection.
In terms of Hecl itself, taken from (http://www.hecl.org/docs/j2me.html#javame_tutorial)
"I became interested in writing cell phone applications several years ago, after a rainy day high in the Italian Dolomites near Cortina d'Ampezzo - my old phone ended up in a mud puddle and died, leading me to purchase a new phone with J2ME (Java) capabilities. Writing applications in Java was okay, but I thought to myself that it would be an interesting experiment to try and create a scripting language that runs on top of the J2ME (now known as Java Micro Edition or Java ME) environment."
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#19B.S. Computer Science, University of Akron (Ohio). Software Architect at a small (25 people) consulting firm.
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#20BS Comp Sci, USC - 1 more year to go