Re:Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualif...
by jokethrowaway on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:45PM
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That's pretty much a waste of 4 years unless you can afford that luxury.
I started working before getting my BS in CS (and worked during it) and there was nothing I needed for my job. I really enjoyed a few exams (especially Logic and Automata) and I thought they were nice brain bending subjects.
A few exams (especially on databases and programming) were trivial because I knew that from the inside and out.
The only reason I did it was that it was cheap in my country, I had to spend only 12k€ (if we exclude the collective 80 years of taxes my parents had to pay before that) and at the time more companies were requiring a degree.
Just start coding while you can and software developers are in demand.
I started working before getting my BS in CS (and worked during it) and there was nothing I needed for my job. I really enjoyed a few exams (especially Logic and Automata) and I thought they were nice brain bending subjects. A few exams (especially on databases and programming) were trivial because I knew that from the inside and out.
The only reason I did it was that it was cheap in my country, I had to spend only 12k€ (if we exclude the collective 80 years of taxes my parents had to pay before that) and at the time more companies were requiring a degree.
Just start coding while you can and software developers are in demand.