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> I've been coding for half my life If you already know programming and you're confident in your ability to continue self-teaching, I'd suggest you actually do
by meritt 7y ago
> I've been coding for half my life
If you already know programming and you're confident in your ability to continue self-teaching, I'd suggest you actually do a different route. MBA, Finance, Accounting, Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, etc. e.g. A good programmer who has a strong understanding of finance will do significantly better in FinTech than the programmer who has spent 4 years practicing CS theory.
If you want to make a real difference, learn a specific field and then use your technical skills to help them solve problems in ways they never imagined possible.
- jlangemeier 7y agoI can't find the article now, but that was actually a suggestion I really liked; don't learn CS in college, learn History, learn Math, learn anything else, because someone who can program are about a dime a dozen; but a historian that can also program is unique. The domain knowledge is so much more important than the tool used to explore it - and having both is a golden ticket.