"professional" programmer, self-taught, no degree.
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#92B.S. Applied Mathematics, UC Berkeley.
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#93BS, Computer Science, Central Washington University.
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#94MBA, 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. The…
When you have leftover parts, that means you were more efficient than the manufacturer. :P
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#95BS in CS, BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering -- from Carnegie Mellon
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#96BS CS Washington State
Will finish this year: MS CS University of Washington
programming for other people for 5 years
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#97B.Sc (Computer Science) and an incomplete B.A (Philosophy/Classics). University of Canterbury here in New Zealand. Currently programming for my startup.
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#98no degree, quit when I was told I couldn't take the fun (math, chem, etc) classes and had to take poly sci
code part-time, not as good as I'd like. Thinking about going back to school and finishing a CS degree, but I'm 40 with 5 kids to support (geeks get lovin too)
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#99M.S. from Norwegian School of Business Administration and Economics (NHH), M.A. in linguistics, University of Oslo, currently programming CL in a telco.
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#100S.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT