Ask HN: Shortest route to $60K+ salary without college

Re:Ask HN: Shortest route to $60K+ salary without college by romanovcode on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:42AM (#18038416)

From my experience if one is in the programming just for the money - one will never make a lot of money as a programmer, only hatred and despair awaits because one will hate the profession.

You are doing a disservice to those 25+ year olds most likely by wasting their time.

If, however those people are interested in programming - learning front-end is the quickest way to get good salary because it does not require any CS knowledge. Doing something like Java/.NET will take some time to learn properly.

I've personally seen a guy in his 30ties who had interest in front-end development become mid-level Angular/React developer in a matter of 3 years. Obviously he has decent salary as you'd expect from mid-level developer.

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Re:Ask HN: Shortest route to $60K+ salary without college by gt2 on Friday September 21, 2018 @09:59AM (#18039732)

I'm not going to get into whether frontend development needs as much CS knowledge as backend (on the whole, because some backend is actually quite simple and requires 0 CS knowledge).

What I will say is that even if frontend takes 0 CS knowledge , which is a more common sentiment than that about backend, you are severely underestimating the other skills required, which some people are not cut out for, just as some are not cut out for hard core CS.

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Re:Ask HN: Shortest route to $60K+ salary without college by NPMaxwell on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:04PM (#18043335)

Yes. I bumped into one article that suggested that React had the largest gap between demand and supply.

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