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PhD 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.
Essentially had to self-teach myself programming after graduation, because all they taught was Java and C++ and Windows NT. Real programming is a totally different mindset.
Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I graduate in May, looking forward to working full time on my startup after that. I-L-L!
All UIUC/Chicago hackers interested in meeting up should email me: jared [at] aftervibe [dot] com
no degree, can't code, rejected from yc funding 3 times, and still working on my startup.
My degree is in sanskrit. Programming was as obvious a detour as any after that, once I figured I wasn't cut out to be an academic.
Maybe half of a theater degree? I completely failed out of college, then tried to make a living as an "artist," then accidentally stumbled into a programming job at a start-up. Now I'm a principal software engineer.