[Pxtl]

If you weren't a programmer when you started, you are when you finished. Wasn't Torvalds pretty much a hobbyist when he began?

[rada]

Torvalds graduated from college with a Master's in Comp Sci.

[Pxtl]

Yeah, but I think he was still an undergrad student when he started working on Linux, wasn't he?

[astrodust]

Although I'm sure Torvalds was an exception, I've met several people that that level that still can't code to save their life. Being a Comp Sci. major and being a programmer are often orthogonal.