Welcome to this blog. I would like to share some of my progress in how I fulfill my computer science knowledge and skills and find a job.
Here are some of my background:
Work: some entry-level experience in healthcare, had a business in telemedicine with friends, during that time I learned some coding skills but I didn't plan to be a developer at that time.
Education: An incomplete degree of medicine and a BS degree in IT management. The IT part of the program is about databases with several SQL courses. I also have a Google Certificate in IT Support.
I live in San Francisco, CA so I do have friends working in the tech industry from high school alumni and meetups around the Bay Area. They are from all backgrounds: Some have a degree from Stanford, some get masters from UC Berkeley, and some just ran into a boot camp.
I got admitted from the Northeastern University SF campus MSCS align program in Jan 2020. This is a program designed for non-tech bachelors to transform their careers. I finished one semester, including courses such as "Intensive CS" and "Discrete mathematics and data structure". I decided to stop this program because of COVID-19: After the midterm of my first semester, all courses became online and this condition continued to the next two semesters. I found Zoom University was not for me and I want to save money for my CS education (the tuition of NEU is $1571 per credit and there are 44 credits in total). I conduct a CS self-study plan and hope to have the same or better effect than going to grad school.
The main tool I will use now is the BS in CS program of WGU. As a WGU student, I have Linkedin Learning and Pluralsight access, too. I also collected some famous courses on Udemy, Coursera, and Edx in case I need to learn deeper skills for the technical interview (review algorithms, etc). Besides the regular CS learning path, I am also interested in blockchain so I will try to learn that if I have time.
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