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dasmith2on Ask YC: Masters in CS? Or no?

I'm not sure about what a masters will do for your prospects, but I'm getting one and I LOVE it. So I say do it if you think you'll enjoy it.

dasmith2on Ask YC: What do I, a graduating CS student, need to know to go into the real world as a programmer?

Here's what I did, and it worked out really well for me (I made $68 / hr last year, 3 years out of undergraduate). I got a job that paid a miserly $30,000 / yr at first, but it was a small company and I got tons of experience. I was in way over my head at first as you can probably guess from reading everybody else's posts. But I worked and learned hard, and after that it was a piece of cake.

If you are like me, I only wrote a couple of thousand of lines of code in college. I'm up to somewhere around 150,000 now, and I feel proportionally more confident and capable. I just scored an internship at Google actually.

Then my only problem was that I got bored, so I'm spending all that money on a masters degree, which I am thoroughly enjoying.

dasmith2on Poll: What languages are you using to build your startup?

How about databases. Oracle, MySql, Microsoft Sql, PostgreSQL