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

#53
I went to a college in Canada, which are basically regarded as the "lower form" of post secondary, as Universities are for the big wigs.

I graduated from a 3 year Computer Programmer / Systems Analyst program and couldn't be happier. Now working at a retail startup doing all their tech / web/internal development / online / offline marketing and I couldn't be happier

Apart from that I stick in some freelance and my own projects on the side. Currently working on my own startup. I live code, I loves it

So to the initial question: No major degree, but I can code!

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

#54
MBA, BA, Economics BA, French Université de Montpellier, France International Interpreter's School Mons, Belgium

Started coding at about 8 or 9 years old on a C64 and Apple IIc/IIe. I have always been a tinkerer of sorts... taking things apart then wondering why I have extra parts left over when I put it back together.

I have done it all, networking, development, support, QA, moving up the food chain so to speak. These days, I spend a lot of time in Project/Process management.

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

#58
BA in English and Creative Writing, Oberlin College

Most of a second bachelor's in psychology, University of Pennsylvania

A year-and-a-half in a Clinical Psychology PhD program, University of Texas, Austin

MS Information Systems, and MS Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia

Web developer at a not-for-profit medical publishing company, doing Rails and pretty much anything else related to the web.

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