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Night school is certainly possible, although i'm not really sure where. I've looked into SJSU but it seems there would be at least 2 semesters of pre-req's bef

Night school is certainly possible, although i'm not really sure where. I've looked into SJSU but it seems there would be at least 2 semesters of pre-req's before getting into the interesting upper level CS courses. Still I have tried to get a basic understanding of what is taught in cs courses. To that end I am currently in the middle of watching the 20 lectures in intro to data structures ( http://www.youtube.com/user/UNSWelearning#p/u/195/RpRRUQFbePU http://www.youtube.com/user/UNSWelearning#p/u/195/RpRRUQFbeP... ) but i don't feel its quite the same to watch a course as it is to participate in the labs and assignments. So far i have an understanding of basic search algo's and big O notation from the course, and learning more.

marquis 15y ago
Better than nightschool would be to spend time developing your own product. Look around you, and any time you run into a problem (I wish I could do X easier or cheaper) think if you could build a system that does that. There are plenty of hacker spaces: once you have a project in mind take your latop and go hang out, find a space you like and just get to work. You'll naturally start to interact with others, find out about free weekend classes, conferences etc. Once you start building your own project you'll learn fast (and go ahead - make a lot of mistakes! It's important). Having a working project that does something useful and interesting is a very, very good resume. Use Show HN to your benefit too. I also read above you are contributing to open source projects: stay subscribed and be proactive if a bug or feature comes up that you think you can tackle. Good luck!