Proving Your Worth as a Self-Taught Developer
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Pamela Fox[^]:
In our San Francisco chapter of GirlDevelopIt, we have an increasing number of members that are attending our web development classes because they actually want to get a job in our industry. They come from all sorts of backgrounds... but the important thing to note is that many of them do not come from a computer science background. They are learning web development skills and computer science concepts by attending classes like ours, going through online tutorials like Treehouse or Codecademy, taking online courses like Coursera's CS 101, and generally taking the DIY approach to learning. So, they can do all that to learn the skills that they need for the job, but the question remains, can they actually get a job?
What's the best way to show skills and get a job without the degree?
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Pamela Fox[^]:
In our San Francisco chapter of GirlDevelopIt, we have an increasing number of members that are attending our web development classes because they actually want to get a job in our industry. They come from all sorts of backgrounds... but the important thing to note is that many of them do not come from a computer science background. They are learning web development skills and computer science concepts by attending classes like ours, going through online tutorials like Treehouse or Codecademy, taking online courses like Coursera's CS 101, and generally taking the DIY approach to learning. So, they can do all that to learn the skills that they need for the job, but the question remains, can they actually get a job?
What's the best way to show skills and get a job without the degree?
I am entirely self taught, worked in the industry for 24 years, won industry prizes for software I have designed, written and implemented.
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Pamela Fox[^]:
In our San Francisco chapter of GirlDevelopIt, we have an increasing number of members that are attending our web development classes because they actually want to get a job in our industry. They come from all sorts of backgrounds... but the important thing to note is that many of them do not come from a computer science background. They are learning web development skills and computer science concepts by attending classes like ours, going through online tutorials like Treehouse or Codecademy, taking online courses like Coursera's CS 101, and generally taking the DIY approach to learning. So, they can do all that to learn the skills that they need for the job, but the question remains, can they actually get a job?
What's the best way to show skills and get a job without the degree?
most days you don't need what they teach in school, problem with education is, it's taught (and curriculum as well) by *Academics* with no industry/real world experience I don't think this is true for everyone but for *many* school is quite irrelevant. This said, quant finance, CAD/graphics engineering software, gaming ... all uses a lot of linear algebra/matrix mathematics
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Pamela Fox[^]:
In our San Francisco chapter of GirlDevelopIt, we have an increasing number of members that are attending our web development classes because they actually want to get a job in our industry. They come from all sorts of backgrounds... but the important thing to note is that many of them do not come from a computer science background. They are learning web development skills and computer science concepts by attending classes like ours, going through online tutorials like Treehouse or Codecademy, taking online courses like Coursera's CS 101, and generally taking the DIY approach to learning. So, they can do all that to learn the skills that they need for the job, but the question remains, can they actually get a job?
What's the best way to show skills and get a job without the degree?
Terrence Dorsey wrote:
What's the best way to show skills and get a job without the degree?
Write a program that people want to use.
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For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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