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

Re:Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are progra... by abstractbill on Thursday February 07, 2008 @12:51PM (#111111)

PhD in pure mathematics, University of Nottingham, UK.

Self-taught as a programmer, but it's a similar mindset.

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Re:Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are progra... by albertcardona on Thursday February 07, 2008 @03:50PM (#111378)

PhD in Biology (Developmental Genetics), Univ. Barcelona, Spain.

Self-taught as a programmer as well, but it's a totally different mindset.

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Re:Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are progra... by edu on Friday February 08, 2008 @11:17AM (#112149)

BSc in Computer Systems Engineering, UPC, Spain.

Currently studying MSc in Computation, also at the UPC, Spain and working as a programmer (mainly in Perl and JavaScript).

Programming since I was 14 (currently I'm 23), lot of self-acquired knowledge.

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Re:Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are progra... by mnemonicsloth on Friday February 08, 2008 @02:06PM (#112256)

PhD student in EE/solid-state, currently vacationing in the math department.

I started out in CS and hated it, but I still spend a lot of my time coding.

Most of my math classmates can program a little, but all the engineers I know are hopeless.

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Re:Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are progra... by whacked_new on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @11:04PM (#115520)

Can you elaborate on "hopeless," and why do you say this?

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Re:Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are progra... by ken on Thursday February 07, 2008 @06:11PM (#111540)

B.A., CS, 2000. A prestigious US university you've heard of.

Essentially had to self-teach myself programming after graduation, because all they taught was Java and C++ and Windows NT. Real programming is a totally different mindset.

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