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Seeing that I got my degree over 20 years ago and even then it was from a state school with a horrible comp. sci. department, I am sure my CS degree did nothing for me even for my first job.

I was lucky that by the time I git to college, I already been hacking around with AppleSoft Basic and 65C02 assembly language for six years. I picked up C on my own and that carried me through the first 12 years of my career. Knowledge of algorithms helped me a little bit since we had to do everything from scratch but most modern developers wouldn’t even need that.



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