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Re:Career advice for young system programmers by eatonphil on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:08AM (#37174533)
Another datapoint, Anders Hejlsberg (author of C#, TypeScript, etc.) didn't graduate from university.

https://www.thecrazyprogrammer.com/2022/08/anders-hejlsberg-...

However, I'm sure that the ideal (if not the norm) in systems programming companies is that you did finish at least a bachelor's degree. So it's not like you betting against formal education is a good idea.

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Re:Career advice for young system programmers by anta40 on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:56AM (#37176552)
Torvalds, a hardcore system programming guy got a Master degree: https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kutvonen/index_files/linus.pdf

For example... :D

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