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Not sure on the prerequisites. I have absolutely no discipline and still managed to get my compsci degree!

ghaff 3y ago
That probably because you were in a degree program. Discipline is definitely an issue if you just decide to complete a couple dozen courses making up a curriculum from OCW or whatever. Even if you take out elective stuff, especially that not connected to the major, you're almost certainly talking many hundreds of hours to plow through a college major.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
  Jokes aside, I agree. University programs do/can provide an almost overbearing amount of structure, and that worked well for me.
- vidyesh 3y ago
  I think the elective stuff might also be a reason to be able to successfully finish the degree. University degree for many comes down to studying strategically than understanding everything they are studying. So the elective stuff might be considered a break from other stuff, which means the brain does get time to take a break from a certain topic to retain that information while you study something else. Self-study is a road with very little guidance to understand which part is more important to study, and which just needs to be understood so the pressure to make sure one knows everything makes it difficult to progress at a consistent pace.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    >Self-study is a road with very little guidance to understand which part is more important to study, and which just needs to be understood so the pressure to make sure one knows everything makes it difficult to progress at a consistent pace. Part of it is that there's also the question of what your goal is. If you down an MIT CS+EE degree curriculum in OCW, you're actually not going to have a huge amount of programming except as a byproduct. If your actual objective is to learn front-end development, I'm guessing you won't actually have learned that by the time you're done. I'm guessing most people looking for a self-directed CS bootcamp don't actually want a "CS" bootcamp.

That probably because you were in a degree program. Discipline is definitely an issue if you just decide to complete a couple dozen courses making up a curriculum from OCW or whatever. Even if you take out elective stuff, especially that not connected to the major, you're almost certainly talking many hundreds of hours to plow through a college major.

KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Jokes aside, I agree. University programs do/can provide an almost overbearing amount of structure, and that worked well for me.
vidyesh 3y ago
I think the elective stuff might also be a reason to be able to successfully finish the degree. University degree for many comes down to studying strategically than understanding everything they are studying. So the elective stuff might be considered a break from other stuff, which means the brain does get time to take a break from a certain topic to retain that information while you study something else. Self-study is a road with very little guidance to understand which part is more important to study, and which just needs to be understood so the pressure to make sure one knows everything makes it difficult to progress at a consistent pace.
- ghaff 3y ago
  >Self-study is a road with very little guidance to understand which part is more important to study, and which just needs to be understood so the pressure to make sure one knows everything makes it difficult to progress at a consistent pace. Part of it is that there's also the question of what your goal is. If you down an MIT CS+EE degree curriculum in OCW, you're actually not going to have a huge amount of programming except as a byproduct. If your actual objective is to learn front-end development, I'm guessing you won't actually have learned that by the time you're done. I'm guessing most people looking for a self-directed CS bootcamp don't actually want a "CS" bootcamp.