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| Sep 29, 2010 at 0:00 | comment | added | user3792 | I have a degree in philosophy with 1 programming course. I taught myself the rest that I needed for the job and work as a software developer and I keep up with people who have CS degrees and have 10 years of experience. I'm no wiz and would probably be better if i had a CS degree, but I have been able to get by through practice and study. (of course, philosophy did prepare me with much more formal logic than most and that definitely contributed). | |
| Sep 19, 2010 at 5:12 | comment | added | FeatureCreep | I think you are missing the point. I guess your colleague was hired because he knew how to program, not for his degree in psychology. A M.Sc. with one programming course that has been programming for ten years is not a problem either. When this programming course is the -only- programming they have done, then it is not enough. And math skills do not automatically make you produce good, fast, stable, maintainable code. Usually some other programmer has to fix the mess. | |
| Sep 19, 2010 at 2:59 | comment | added | configurator | I've got a colleague with a degree in psychology. That seems to have been good enough, he's a very capable software developer. And I don't have a degree at all. | |
| Sep 10, 2010 at 17:20 | history | answered | FeatureCreep | CC BY-SA 2.5 |