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by dragonwriter 1901 days ago
> Going to college for programming must mean they are quite young indeed. When did colleges even start offering programming degrees?

Per Wikipedia, 1953. Coincidentally the same year that RMS—not exactly the youngest programmer around—was born.

But that waa a graduate degree. Undergraduate probably sometime between then and 1962 when Purdue opened the first full CS department, I would assume.