How would an non-fresh grad adult go about starting a career in programming without a degree in computer science? Reading and doing. I'll come back and add my

How would an non-fresh grad adult go about starting a career in programming without a degree in computer science? Reading and doing. I'll come back and add my reading list when my HN timeout is up. SICP, the dragon book, and Hennessy's computer architecture book are a good start. Others may have some great suggestions. Is a couple online courses and a twitter clone or so in your github profile all you need to get a real job these days? Depends on where you're located and how old you are. Cultures are so incredibly different from place-to-place that a credit in one sector can be a demerit in the other. Do they need to pay thousands for some bootcamp to learn how to 'hack the interview'? Probably not. What is it that hiring managers are looking for in fresh programmers? Fresh, innocent young whores without fixed value systems or outside obligations. If you start drawing lines in the sand for personal relationships and making value judgments about the work being dong (Uber, Palantir, etc.), you will lose a lot of value very quickly.