BA Comp Sci & Economics, UC-Berkeley
Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?
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#142BA in Philosophy from the University of Montana and a JD (in May) from the University of Pennsylvania
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#143BA Mathematics, concentration in Comp. Sci. from University of Rochester. Graduated a year before they had an undergrad Comp. Sci. degree--there was already a graduate program. Oh, yeah: I'm a programmer.
B.A. Cognitive Science - University of Rochester. - Programmer.
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#144BS Material Science - Rice
Took no comp sci in school, but I've been coding since I was 8 (Drawing Mr. T in VB)
Currently work as a coder, never used the degree
but..
co-workers who do my same job without a degree pull 20k less a year and are career limited (in that they can't advance anymore until they get a degree of some kind)
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#145Engineering degree in civil engineering. self taught programming while in college and switched to full time programming career after a year stint has a civil engineer on the field.
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#146(pursuing) BS Computer Science, BA Philosophy, Duke University
B.S. Economics and Computer Science, 2006 - Duke University!
GTHC! GTHC! ;-)
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#147BS in CS and MS in HCI, both from Carnegie Mellon
I've been thinking about getting an MS in HCI. How did you like the program?
I actually did a 4.5 year program for Master's and Undergrad there, so I don't have the typical experience.
I liked the program, I definitely learned a lot from it, although I can't honestly say I've used it much in my career (ended up lower level than UI often times).
My only gripe is that I wish that (at least at CMU) they had taught more graphic design. We had a few classes, but they were quite basic (I took as many as I could, but ultimately the interesting ones were restricted to Design majors).
Before you go get a Master's -- think about which part of HCI are you most interested in? Usability (evaluating, running tests), UI design, the programming?
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#148BSc (Computer Science) from Curtin University, Western Australia
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#149BA Political Science, UC San Diego. Still learning programming. Stuck in insurance atm.
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#150BA Philosophy & Biology - UNC Chapel Hill MA Philosophy - University of Maryland, College Park
WOOHOO! +1 Philosophy BA Philosophy from Ripon College MS Information Systems University of Maryland Baltimore County (in progress). been a avid "hobbyist" programmer for 7-8 years now... just recently started getting paid for my programming.
BA Philosophy Colgate University, 1 Year Post Bacc CompSci University of Oregon - have been programming for food since 2000