BA 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.
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#62Maybe 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.
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#63BS in Computer Science & Engineering from The Ohio State University. - Programming for the man. the '& Engineering' just means I took more math and physics classes and some intro to (insert Engineering Discipline) classes.
MS in Industrial and System Engineering (thesis in Systems) from Ohio University. Learned programming as a mix of self-study, and great mentoring by a professor at OU.
Bachelors in Production Engineering from Bombay, India.
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#64BS Information Systems, University of Texas in Arlington
working as database/web developer
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#65B.S., M.Eng. C.S. Texas A&M University. Programming for the man (but working on a little bit of just about everything on my own at home). Really. Desparately trying to figure out how to get going with a startup without having to go to the freaking Valley, Boston, or NYC.
Daggum Californicators.
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#67BEng Software Engineering Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London UK.
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#68no degree, can't code, rejected from yc funding 3 times, and still working on my startup.
What's your startup?
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#69B.S., M.Eng. C.S. Texas A&M University. Programming for the man (but working on a little bit of just about everything on my own at home). Really. Desparately trying to figure out how to get going with a startup without having to go to the freaking Valley, Boston, or NYC. Daggum Californicators.
Desperately trying to figure out how to get going with a startup without having to go to the freaking Valley, Boston, or NYC.
You can do it, if you can find a good cofounder where you are. When people like me talk about it being a net win to be in the Valley, we mean no more than that. It gives you an advantage. But it's far less important than the quality of your cofounder(s).
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#70I dropped out of business school. Too boring, especially macroeconomics. It was quite clear early on that they had absolutely no idea how things actually worked in the real world, and were just dreaming up theories. I'm not a programmer, but I'm learning. It's so hard to get good programmers that I thought I would learn how.
The trouble with business school is that some students mistake the classes for... well, for anything other than an opportunity to network. If you want to learn about finance, work for a fucking bank! If you want to make contacts, you could do a lot worse than a top MBA program. An EE friend of mine (who helped me survive PChem, since I taught myself linear algebra and multivariate calculus, poorly) went back for his…
There is definitely a difference, and my goal is not to become a scientific programmer - I'm not smart enough for that. I am just curious as to how it all works, and my goal is primarily to better understand the process. So it is just basic CSS, javascript and PHP.