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Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

— Jon Postel

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

— Melinda Gates

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

— Richard Powers

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

— W. Richard Stevens

I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a career shift. I went to graduate school in computer science, and I began developing educational technologies - in particular, technologies to engage children in creative learning experiences.

— Mitchel Resnick

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.

— JWoww

I went to Carnegie Mellon.

— Patina Miller

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

— Rodney Brooks

I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.

— Andy Weir

✗Opposing Perspectives

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

— Gene Luen Yang