Quick poll - what type of degree - from what school -
Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?
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#2I 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.
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#3Masters in Mathematics UC Berkeley
Programming since 1969.
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#4Purdue University - BS in Computer Programming Technology
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#5No degree, I left for Italy afer a few years of Italian courses at the University of Oregon. I have worked as a programmer for 11 years.
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#6I dropped out of Informatics (Universidad de La Plata), in 3rd year. I'm now starting studies on Maths (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
I've been programming for about 12, or 13 years now, I think.
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#7Masters, EE, Penn State
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#8BA in CS, Amherst College.
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#9Info & Comp Sci Degree from UC Irvine. Just transitioned to being a programmer in our group.
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#10Been developing software for more than 10 years.
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