Do you have any tips for books, websites, or whatever on how to get started? I love computers and the whole topic of programming is fascinating to me, but I don’t have the money (or time (or energy)) to go to back to school.
I work in a dead-end retail job and I really really really need to get out. Lol.
Search on Piratebay for a python or rust or javascript (+html + css) course and do it completely. There are also online courses, but really there should be a summary website!
But it depends a lot on what you want to do.
How long it lasts. Year after year after year. No end in sight. No summer, winter or spring breaks. One vacation a year and a few sick days.
Come to Germany, here you usually get 30 days of vacation. Also there are additional perks with individual companies, for example one company I did an internship with had “grandpa days” where you get 50 vacation days when you are over 50 years old.
I am studying environmental sciences.
Literally everything. Certifications, real world climate change + protection, Emission levels, technical details of climate protection in companies or industries, communication between departments.
We had planning and a bit of law, the rest is useless basic science.
I am 100% unprepared for any Job that is actually needed.
Like… Literally any of it. I’m a software engineer and my degree didn’t have anything to do with software or engineering.
I’d have to really stretch to something like “time management” or “active listening” to find any connection, lol.
Computer Science was great dont get me wrong, but I totally agree. Comp Sci helped with some of the basics, but didnt prepare you at all on the soft skills that get you ahead, nor why task management, version control, and other such concepts are so important.
I can’t believe in my comp sci course they never went over git. Like cmon that’s core to software development these days.
I like to think of it as Computer Science. Don’t need to know Git, if you’re at best researching how programs could theoretically be implemented…
