I majored in history and was working as a carpenter. I started with CS50 on edX. Then did freecodecamp and fun projects for a year in my spare time after work.

I majored in history and was working as a carpenter. I started with CS50 on edX. Then did freecodecamp and fun projects for a year in my spare time after work. Then quit my job and did a semester of undergrad CS and Math at a cheap state school, got an IT internship, and volunteered with a research group at school. One semester of that was enough to get a basic programming job which led to my current job which I love. I strongly considered a bootcamp but I couldn't justify the expense given the amount of free educational material that exists on the internet and uncertainty of how the credential would be perceived.