Congratulations on heading to HackerSchool! A and B seem mutually exclusive to me these days. You seem to have an interesting (and not necessarily narrow) ski

Congratulations on heading to HackerSchool! A and B seem mutually exclusive to me these days. You seem to have an interesting (and not necessarily narrow) skillset, so don't sweat "broadness" much. The greatest number of opportunities are probably in enterprise Java or C# and I would feel bad recommending you use HackerSchool for that unless that is personally compelling to you. For B, I scanned your webpage. You have a short posting on predictions. I have this theory that I intend to more fully explore that building up a real strong background in stats and applied modeling would be a superpower. The applied part might be great fun at HackerSchool. Maybe tackle something with Clojure and Incanter. Or really push your Python chops. If you feel like you really want or need to build your foundations, maybe you could take a book like Concept, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming and grind through. I wish my formal CS education had spent at least a year doing a kind of "paradigms of programming" path, studying functional and logic programming deeply. Ask around about this, I often think that doing this with one or two others would be better than alone. I feel like I'm writing this comment to myself. Hopefully it's at least somewhat helpful to you.