I'm curious what age range you are - When I got into the coding field in the early 90s, almost EVERYONE came from non-tech education fields. I've had a sysadmi

I'm curious what age range you are - When I got into the coding field in the early 90s, almost EVERYONE came from non-tech education fields. I've had a sysadmin with a masters in chinese philosophy. I've had coworkers with degrees in fashion, linguistics, and of course, a few people that hadn't finished college at all. I myself did a "make your own major" that combined Comp Sci & Philosophy. My degree has never mattered (though some places did care that I _had_ a degree of some sort). And I can think of only two classes I had that ever directly contributed to coding. For the curious, one was an algorithms class, and the other was "Group Software Design", where we had lectures about the Waterfall method "which all serious companies use" (it was the early 90s) and had a team that was supposed to code a final project according to the methods taught: so, weeks of requirements and documentation, then a quick spurt of work to actually code it. What really happened was weeks of debating what language/libraries to use, then with 2 weeks left one of us actually stubbed out the code, so his language choice won, then we pulled all-nighters for those 2 weeks to code it. The guy that skipped the coding sessions was told to document it after the fact. It was a highly educational experience that was directly applicable to real coding work :) I've noticed that coders more often have CS or SE degrees now at work, and that the education is given more attention, though I don't particularly value it - a degree simply assures me that you've done X hours of coding, not that you learned anything nor that what you learned is applicable. Show me anything you've coded on your own time and it's immediately more telling. (and I've interviewed too many college grads that have never coded anything that wasn't for a school assignment)