yes, I 100% agree with you that you don't need a degree for being a perfect front-end dev. But me wanting to have a degree is more like exploring what else you could do with the computers and I'm sure there are a lot. And there may be this one thing in them that I would love to pursue, but now I don't know any of those possibilities as I didn't complete a degree...
Here, I'm going to save you 5+ years and thousands of dollars in debt. As it is in the current tech environment you can either go the more focused in software and app development or you can go the more bare metal programming and start dealing with the hardware itself. There are several things in this space like microcontrollers, IoT, drones, autonomous cars and you can get started with Arduino or Raspberry Pi if you want to deal with the inner workings of computers.
At the pace technology is changing you will want to focus and specialize in something and there are several boot camps and online courses that can give you a hint of what could be more interesting for you to pursue. The possibilities are pretty much endless and you can get started with just a few hours and a couple of bucks to see what's out there and later when you find something that truly makes you excited, then you can get really serious with that and invest much more on that area (still saving a lot of time and money in the process).
But let's say I want to explore the possibilities in the AI world, don't I have to know all the math, algorithm, optimization stuff to start? And as I agree that the tech or more specifically the application tech is indeed changing very fast, there are fundamental things that don't change. I'm always under the assumption that there are certain things you need to know in order to move forward into these fields.
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yes, I 100% agree with you that you don't need a degree for being a perfect front-end dev. But me wanting to have a degree is more like exploring what else you could do with the computers and I'm sure there are a lot. And there may be this one thing in them that I would love to pursue, but now I don't know any of those possibilities as I didn't complete a degree...
Here, I'm going to save you 5+ years and thousands of dollars in debt. As it is in the current tech environment you can either go the more focused in software and app development or you can go the more bare metal programming and start dealing with the hardware itself. There are several things in this space like microcontrollers, IoT, drones, autonomous cars and you can get started with Arduino or Raspberry Pi if you want to deal with the inner workings of computers.
At the pace technology is changing you will want to focus and specialize in something and there are several boot camps and online courses that can give you a hint of what could be more interesting for you to pursue. The possibilities are pretty much endless and you can get started with just a few hours and a couple of bucks to see what's out there and later when you find something that truly makes you excited, then you can get really serious with that and invest much more on that area (still saving a lot of time and money in the process).
But let's say I want to explore the possibilities in the AI world, don't I have to know all the math, algorithm, optimization stuff to start? And as I agree that the tech or more specifically the application tech is indeed changing very fast, there are fundamental things that don't change. I'm always under the assumption that there are certain things you need to know in order to move forward into these fields.