Next up for the Fall term is Analysis of Algorithms and Software Engineering II (focuses on testing)

Congrats man! Yeah if you make it through algorithms okay, it's all downhill from there.

Just found this thread and boy am I jealous.

Even though I love being a mechanical engineer, I have really found programming to be more of a passion. If I didn't already have a wife and soon to be 2 kids, I'd be all over something like this. I'm just going to have to stick with taking edx courses and working on pet projects from 3:30 - 5:30AM before everyone else starts waking up...

I'm also oil industry though (with a working wife), so if I get laid off in the next big downturn that'll be my chance! I'll have to find a sector that combines the ME + CS. It sure seems like that would be in high demand.

Host your projects on your GitHub and just get the word out. You never know what could come of it. Another degree is certainly not required.

I also like Udemy for language specific learning. Just never pay full price, they always have $9.99 discounts.

I just signed up for the Udemy Web Developer Bootcamp. Looks quite a bit more in-depth than the various options on edx, and is the $10 price for the full blown thing.

That's a good one. It's amazing that for $10 you can learn just about anything. These opportunities weren't available when I was in HS in the 90s or at A&M in the early 00s

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I just signed up for the Udemy Web Developer Bootcamp. Looks quite a bit more in-depth than the various options on edx, and is the $10 price for the full blown thing.

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If that's the Colt Steele course, then that's supposed to be a really good intro to web development.

It is. Only 1/2 a million other people seem to have liked it and it seems to cover a hell of a lot.

Another term down - I dropped SWE2 (within the first week) to make sure I was focusing on the new job. Completed Algorithms and still have a 4.0 intact.

Next up is the new Cryptography class and SWE1. I should complete the program by Fall 2020, which I MIGHT consider the Ga Tech masters in CS.

(Post mortem 8/20 - dropped Cryptography and will finish Winter 2021 (1 sem later than expected))

honest question -- what would one typically make with that type of degree/experience?

https://www.reddit.com/r/OSUOnlineCS/comments/dd1945/hiring_sharing_thread/

This would have all the data for that (there's links to archived hiring threads). Seems most are starting out at high-5's and for those in Seattle/San Fran its low 6's.