I think my degree is fantastically useful, and I'm relatively young.
There is just no way I would have ever learned the things I learned in my CS degree on my own. My degree reshaped my brain. It forced me to be good at math. It forced me to think like a programmer.
I failed my first 3 CS classes, but I kept going and ended up graduating top 5% in my CS graduating class. I would never have learned how to program without this degree I am absolutely convinced. Like yeah maybe I could hook some stuff up to an array in python and struggle through a for loop.
The CS degree gave me confidence, expertise in solving CS related problems, and for better or worse the market expects me to have this degree and it helped me land a job where I already make 50% more than median household income in my city at only 27.
I would take that student debt again in a heartbeat.
Two of my friends with 4 year college degrees recently quit their jobs and went back to study CS. I told them to avoid bootcamps, why?
I've been a part of the hiring process and people from bootcamps are usually not very good, but occasionally they are. To me the bootcamp education doesn't guarantee a CS related role. You could end up with nothing.
Even my friends who STRUGGLED through a CS degree and are AWFUL programmers were able to leverage their degree into roles like Project Manager or Product Owner which have great outlooks and solid pay.
There is just no way I would have ever learned the things I learned in my CS degree on my own. My degree reshaped my brain. It forced me to be good at math. It forced me to think like a programmer.
I failed my first 3 CS classes, but I kept going and ended up graduating top 5% in my CS graduating class. I would never have learned how to program without this degree I am absolutely convinced. Like yeah maybe I could hook some stuff up to an array in python and struggle through a for loop.
The CS degree gave me confidence, expertise in solving CS related problems, and for better or worse the market expects me to have this degree and it helped me land a job where I already make 50% more than median household income in my city at only 27.
I would take that student debt again in a heartbeat.
Two of my friends with 4 year college degrees recently quit their jobs and went back to study CS. I told them to avoid bootcamps, why?
I've been a part of the hiring process and people from bootcamps are usually not very good, but occasionally they are. To me the bootcamp education doesn't guarantee a CS related role. You could end up with nothing.
Even my friends who STRUGGLED through a CS degree and are AWFUL programmers were able to leverage their degree into roles like Project Manager or Product Owner which have great outlooks and solid pay.