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Ask HN: Did you manage to get proper CS basics while working full-time? how?
After working for almost 7 years in the industry and getting pretty far in terms of career I've been recently thinking about how to catch up with everything I missed at the university - and I missed a lot.
There was this Show HN post recently linking to teachyourselfcs.com and I find it a pretty good, minimal resource. I would love to read/watch every of 9 subjects proposed there. Yet, each of them takes approximately 100-200 hours, which is full-time year of studying 8 hours a day.
I simply cannot take such a sabbatical nor think it would be effective.
So I am wondering if anyone had similar experience successfully getting strong CS backgroung while working full-time job at the same time?
- blackflame7000 9y agoI think the biggest thing a University affords is exposure to areas of computer science that you didn't know existed. In my experience, most of undergrad was spent learning about a subject for a quarter or two before moving on to something else unrelated. It often frustrated me because it felt like there was never enough time to master the current subject before the class was over. I later realized that this is by design. Undergraduate curriculums are all about exposure to different topics in order to give you an idea of what you might want to pursue as a career. If you already have experience in industry, you are probably far better of a programmer than most fresh out of college because nothing beats experience.