How I got a dev job at Khan Academy without a CS degree or dev work experience

Re:How I got a dev job at Khan Academy without a CS degree o... by stchangg on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @02:42PM (#7906164)

Thanks for the comment! Hm, I'm not sure what school you went to, but an ECE degree at Duke is not like an EECS degree at MIT. It leans much more towards the electrical engineering side of things, and very, very few of my peers (in fact, I can't think of any who didn't get a joint CS degree) became programmers afterwards. You can check out the curriculum here: http://www.ee.duke.edu/undergrad/bse-degree-planning.

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I'd like to also add this point from my blogpost, which can perhaps give a better sense of my ability before I applied:

> Unlike many software developers, I didn’t start programming when I was 10. I started in college at the ripe age of 18 and took a grand total of 4 programming courses during my 4 years there. I was not a stand-out student in any of my programming or engineering courses. No teacher saw promise in me, took me under their wing, or mentored me to greatness.

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Re:How I got a dev job at Khan Academy without a CS degree o... by dotrob on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @03:33PM (#7906479)

I liked your article -- I appreciated the different perspective it presents (kind of outside-looking-in on the coding/startup job).

The article also led me on to "Invisible Burden" and "Why Stories Are So Important" -- great stuff. Thanks for writing those.

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Re:How I got a dev job at Khan Academy without a CS degree o... by stchangg on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:38PM (#7906841)

Thanks! That means a lot to me.

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