At the time of this posting, and including me (22 + BSEE) and the OP, here are some stats:
Sample Size: 88
Max: 62
Min: 18
Mean: 27.3
Median: 25.5
StdDev: 8.17
I excluded some outliers based on claims I believed to be false or silly (4 yo w/ laptop and 87 w/ high school)
Pretty interesting stats. Disclaimer ripped from slashdot:
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
More interesting statistics: Out of a sample size of 107 (as above, after removing obviously silly reports), there are:
41 people whose highest completed degree is a Bachelor's,
17 people whose highest completed degree is a Master's, and
5 people whose highest completed degree is a Doctorate.
At all three levels, there's roughly a 40:20:40 split between degrees in areas other than computing, people who didn't state what field their degree is in, and degrees in computing.
25 + Struggling to finish my last year as an undergrad; taking pointless bullshit required GE classes that I couldn't bring myself to complete the first time around.
Sometimes I think the whole point of college is, "If this person can bring themselves to complete pointless bullshit, then they can bring themselves to complete anything."
Which turns out to be bs in the end. Just about everyone does college and just about no one brings it upon themselves to do anything out of the ordinary afterward.
Maybe just about everyone you know. But not in general.
At almost every company I call on, most of the good jobs are done by college graduates and most of the hourly jobs by non-graduates. The graduates have demonstrated before the first interview that they can take on a major project and FINISH IT.
Not a judgement. Just an observation. When it doubt, stick it out.
[edit]i like the "say in one tense, mean in all" declarative style (where the present is the "all tense,") if that makes any sense. it's sort of like functional programming
My high school counselor recommended I graduate early to attend college, but being 16 and feeling unchallenged by school I opted to apply myself to the real world and started my own business instead.
27 (this young still for a few more days!) + MS in Computer Engineering (Wonder if that term really works for example in the US? Anyway that's what the university here calls it in English.)
Doing college part time, plus I didn't start until late. In some ways I think I could probably just do without the degree, but I've invested so much time into it, I want to finish.
25 with BS (Computer Science). I started a graduate program a while ago, did a year, dropped it and got a job. Now I wanna go back full time and get a PhD.
I'm not happy working, but I enjoy doing research, learning and tinkering so it seems like a good fit for me. There were a few reasons why I dropped out, none of which were because I didn't like what I was doing.
There are several people posting here that are very new users.. it's good to get new users engaged, give them a little positive reinforcement and mod them up so they will feel good about sticking around.
I think it just helps us know the community more, and it's a good reference in case we are eventually looking for someone with a MS in Electrical Engineering.
Was tempted to copy and paste the Bad Match error from my latest project, but then I figured, what do I know about you. Kudos for interesting explanation.
Sample Size: 88
Max: 62
Min: 18
Mean: 27.3
Median: 25.5
StdDev: 8.17
I excluded some outliers based on claims I believed to be false or silly (4 yo w/ laptop and 87 w/ high school)
Pretty interesting stats. Disclaimer ripped from slashdot:
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."