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Never too late. It's absolutely worth it, and at 30 you're hardly too old to do absolutely anything you want as far as career changes. But I think that way bey
by logjam 15y ago
Never too late. It's absolutely worth it, and at 30 you're hardly too old to do absolutely anything you want as far as career changes.
But I think that way beyond the technical training you will get in CS, the true value of a university education is taking classes in a wide variety of fields: literature, sociology, biology, math, physics, foreign language, history, etc....and having a chance to talk to other smart people about what you're learning. As someone else recently said, the intersection of the humanities and engineering/sciences is a wild and rewarding place to live.
- un1xl0ser 15y agoI agree that the holistic benefits of going back to school are certainly more valuable to me than the CS classes, but I also think that I would appreciate CS in a different way than I would have being 18-23. I expect that the fact that I am used to working borderline psychotic hours means that I could be able to maybe even perform some interesting work at the same time as studying, but this is not something I think that I should count on. That said, I really want to avoid accumulating debt and the 20-30k that I would expect from a "good" school is something that I am carefully weighing with the more affordable state school. EWD worked at University of Texas Austin.