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I have no degree. Personal projects played a huge part in helping me get jobs at Microsoft and Electronic Arts. Also, I'm very sure I'd be a shit programmer if
by psyc 10y ago
I have no degree. Personal projects played a huge part in helping me get jobs at Microsoft and Electronic Arts. Also, I'm very sure I'd be a shit programmer if I hadn't put tens of thousands of hours in at home.
- wapz 10y agoHow did you put tens of thousands of hours at home? Are you referring to remote work in your house? Or did you somehow have enough money saved up to study for 10 hours a day, every day, for 6+ years?
- psyc 10y agoI'm old, so I've had a lot more than 6 years. When I got my first job at a small unknown software company, I'd been programming in my spare time for 9 years already, and I estimate I had put in the proverbial 10,000 hours. I wasn't very good at that time, just good enough to get hired.
- iEchoic 10y agoI have a degree - and it was valuable - but I also feel that the thousands of hours at home was irreplaceable, and has played a huge part in being able to get the jobs I wanted. There are some things that are only learned by creating something very massive entirely by yourself, just like there are some things that are only learned by working on something big in a team.