Don't be silly. One of the best programmers I ever knew had a degree in
Music, another had a degree in Animal Husbandry, and I have known many, many
other competent and capable people who had no degree at all. One degree-less
colleague held his own in the Research Division of a major computing
company.
In fact, quite a few years ago, we cringed whenever a new-hire had a
Computer Science degree, because the probability was high that he/she would
expect to be assigned to write The Compiler That Saved Computing, and even
though I worked for the largest computer manufacturer of the day, there were
precious few compiler-writing jobs available -- especially for entry-level
CS grads.
Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 18:19:32 CDT
