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Sep 9, 2015 at 8:00 comment added Lilienthal You could also check if there are colleges or universities near you where you can pick a professionally oriented selection of courses, though that option is likely to be more expensive, at least in the US.
Sep 9, 2015 at 8:00 comment added Lilienthal @komali_2 You'd have to investigate your own options as they're probably different in every country. Evening classes are often a way for people to reorient to different industries and some of those schools also offer a year-long program of day classes. The advantage of those is that they're very focused on providing skills that employers want and they're usually more affordable than bachelor/master programs. They might be just what you need to get the basics of programming down and have a certificate/diploma to prove that.
Sep 8, 2015 at 22:56 comment added Caleb Jay @lilienthal can you expand on the year long program bit? Are you referring to boot camps or perhaps another option I should be investigating? Thank you all for the informative discussion.
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Sep 8, 2015 at 21:50 comment added Lilienthal @UmNyobe I have to agree with KillianDS here. The validity of "hot tech" aside, high-risk high-reward can be a valid strategy but it's not one that I would recommend for a recent graduate. Your answer also doesn't make much mention of the fact that it's risky so I'd almost call it dangerous advice. Your first two paragraphs are spot on but I don't agree with all of your bullet points. If self-teaching for a year is an option then there are probably any number of legitimate year-long educational programs that will be more useful and have more recognition.
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Sep 8, 2015 at 20:51 comment added UmNyobe @KillianDS fair point. But some languages have bad rep. Some "well established languages" are known to attract a lot of self-taught programmers. How can somebody emerge from the php crowd now without other credentials like fcbk engineer\ivy league graduate? If you have an answer to that I will be glad to read your answer. High risk high reward. If I was starting programming now, I would learn swift.
Sep 8, 2015 at 20:39 comment added UmNyobe @bharal is the goal to learn it? no. The goal is to get a job without a degree.
Sep 8, 2015 at 19:56 comment added KillianDS Point 2&3 are terrible advice. Predicting the next hot tech (including languages) is virtually impossible, choose the wrong one and you waste lots of learning experience. If you want to be sure to land a job, pick a well-established language. It might be more boring, but job opportunities are more real also.
Sep 8, 2015 at 19:46 comment added bharal This advice is so nuts i cannot believe it. Learning IT is hard... It is frustrating, and i have no idea what this answer says. Submit patches to open source to learn??? Answer company quizzes, to learn?? Pick a soon to be hot language (how?) and learn it... How? Self learn?? If self learning was a reliable way to learn, IT would not be a well compensated career.
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