MS, Computer Applications (National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India) Manager of a Development Team. still like to call myself database programmer
Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?
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#112PhD in pure mathematics, University of Nottingham, UK. Self-taught as a programmer, but it's a similar mindset.
PhD in Biology (Developmental Genetics), Univ. Barcelona, Spain.
Self-taught as a programmer as well, but it's a totally different mindset.
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#113Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Cornell
(also B.S., Physics, Case Western Reserve)
I had one formal course in software: Motorola 68k assembly language programming, in college. Three months of super-tedious review for the slow students ("this is a hexadecimal number") followed by perhaps one month of interesting new knowledge ("this is a stack frame"). I never tried to learn programming from a lecture course again.
I self-taught my own way through ArsDigita's web programming curriculum in the late 1990s... reading Greenspun's stuff was what convinced me that software was actually worth doing, and the reading list was great: SICP, Learning Emacs, Fogel's CVS book (hey, that's all they had in the elder days... :), Internetworking with TCP/IP, SQL for Smarties, Tufte, etc.
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#114PhD in Mathematics (computational physics), 1997. Self-taught at programming from age 14. After finishing my PhD I decided to get out of academia. Didn't want to work as a "quant", hence: software (mainly programming).
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#115BA in Computer Science from a tiny liberal arts college. I worked as a programmer for 3 years. now I'm back in school, working on a PhD in the biomedical sciences at BCM.
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#116BS Comp Sci, UC Santa Barbara
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#117B.S. Computer Science, FSU
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#118BA Software Engineering, University of Waterloo. Working as a C++ developer at a big online retailer.
Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Also worked as a software developer at a big online retailer ;-).
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#119BA Software Engineering, University of Waterloo. Working as a C++ developer at a big online retailer.
Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Also worked as a software developer at a big online retailer ;-).
Haha, I know a few people working as developers at a big online retailer from Waterloo too.
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#120Made it 1.5 years into an aerospace engineering program before realizing I was wasting my time and money. I was making six-figures and had racked up tons of hands on experience working with startups and Fortune 500s by the time my classmates walked out with a piece of paper and some huge debts.