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I'm pretty sure that most the programmers, who we consider to be at the top of the professional ladder, won't be able to check off even 30% of those "achievements".


My impression is that people with CS degrees have done at least half of them through coursework.


Stick the word "nontrivial" on the rest of the achievements and that number will drop rapidly. CS students do a lot of these things, but often not with much depth.


If not through the coursework, through some participation in some open source work, he does achieve a part of the list during his university days.




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