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Udacity: How Udacity helped me get a summer internship at Google (without a CS degree)
Brent testing out Google Glass Udacity’s community is full of passionate students who come from diverse professional backgrounds, and who are taking Udacity courses to advance their careers in tech, including those who have made a jump into computer science through our courses from other backgrounds. Today we want to introduce Brent, a Udacity student who majored in physics and worked in finance -- and who wanted to learn more about programming and computer science to explore careers that included technical aspects. Through his experiences, he’s now interning at Google in product management. I took my first computer science course in my senior year of college and quickly realized I had made a huge mistake. I loved programming, but it was pretty much too late to take more CS courses. I regretted it again when I joined the working world and realized that while I rarely had to solve the type of complex mathematical problems I had worked on as a physics major, te…