Nearly all hackers past their teens are either college-degreed
or self-educated to an equivalent level. The self-taught hacker
is often considered (at least by other hackers) to be
better-motivated, and may be more respected, than his
school-shaped counterpart. Academic areas from which people often
gravitate into hackerdom include (besides the obvious computer
science and electrical engineering) physics, mathematics,
linguistics, and philosophy.
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