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Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by codewhisperer » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 4:43 AM UTC

M.S. Computer Science, CIMS NYU. Actively programming when not wrangling departmental politics.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by boucher » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 4:48 AM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #109

rksprst wrote: post #20

BS Comp Sci, USC - 1 more year to go

Fight on! BS CECS and MS CS, USC, '07

BS CECS, MS EE, USC '07

People don't give 'SC enough credit!

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by codewhisperer » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 4:52 AM UTC

ivankirigin wrote: post #72

CS BA NYU, Robotics MS CMU

A CMU Robotics masters is totally sexy.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by mfruhling » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 5:02 AM UTC

Generic Information Systems from Villa Julie College in Maryland. The courses taught me Visual Basic and SQL. I've taught myself everything else and have so much to learn.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by agotterer » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 5:14 AM UTC

B.S. in Management with a concentration in MIS from the University at Buffalo. Transfered out of comp sci from the University of Delaware (I was bored and had no pretty girls in my classes).

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by mxyzptlk » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 5:26 AM UTC

BFA, Illustration, Ringling School of Art and Design, and a programmer.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by cstejerean » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 6:09 AM UTC

kleevr wrote: post #87

Still in college for CS but plan to complete course work on part-time, I've been programming since I was 14 professionally. (A friend of my father had an SEO startup and needed a script kiddie for PERL/JS/HTML stack. He bought me any book I wanted and payed 15/hour. Purely self-taught, but higher level mathematics and discrete theory have improved my programming beyond anything else I've taken.) Computers are made fo…

When I stopped going to school full-time (about 2 years ago) I thought that I would continue my degree part time. It hasn't really worked out however. The reason I stopped going full time is that classes were boring, and since I work full time, wasting a couple of nights per week on boring classes (instead of staying at home hacking) is not something I enjoyed. I'm still "planning" to finish at some point in time but I'm starting to doubt if it will ever happen.

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by nadim » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 6:10 AM UTC

B.Sc. Software Engineering - Universtity of Calgary

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by rksprst » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 6:19 AM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #109

rksprst wrote: post #20

BS Comp Sci, USC - 1 more year to go

Fight on! BS CECS and MS CS, USC, '07

Fight on! Yea, I was surprised that when I posted I didn't see any other USC students or grads. Glad to see they're here!

Re: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

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Post by garethm » Fri, Feb 08, 2008, 7:08 AM UTC

BSc Computer Science from University of Cape Town 1997