[rhizome]

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

[dpark]

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.

[sj11]

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.