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✨Nimmo✨

I would love to. Let me know how I can help. A little about my background: madhunimmo.github.io/

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Bob Bass

Super impressive! I'd love to hear about what you're studying. I bore my friends and family to death when I nerd out over technologies and languages. I'm genuinely interested to hear about your field of study and anything you're researching. I'm a 3obyesr old self taught CS dropout (I don't think I was mature enough for college at 19) and now I'm dying to go back and learn all of the low-level stuff that comes with a computer science curriculum.

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madhunimmo profile image
✨Nimmo✨

Its never too late you know.. Go for it.

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Bob Bass

I'm actually discussing this with a friend of mine right now. I'm building out a startup, completely separate from this app. An old high school buddy of mine is just now enrolling in college at 31. He's doing it because he wants to learn computer science. I want to do it because I'm self-taught and I feel like I've missed out on a lot.

You've been through a full computer science education, I know a lot of people have mixed feelings about it. I already have a pretty solid career path - I just don't know how to teach myself lower level concepts. For example, I haven't learned big o notation, I don't know much about how databases work behind the scenes, the lowest level language I know is either Go or C#.

I get the feeling that if I go back to school, I'll probably learn some of these low-level concepts that would never come up in my everyday life. Since I have a buddy who's going back to school, I could possibly enroll in some of the same classes as him. But it would also be time-consuming while I'm in the process of trying to launch a startup.

So my ultimate question for you is this - if a career was not part of the equation, referring only to the satisfaction that you feel from learning and understanding things - do you feel that it was worth it? I don't want to fork over thousands of dollars just to realize that it slowed down my business and I probably could have self taught if I just knew what to focus on.

Also, do you know when you're going to have some of your work posted? Are you working on a thesis right now? I'm not entirely sure about the PhD process but It looks like you're preparing to put up some research paper on the link you provided.

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madhunimmo profile image
✨Nimmo✨

If that is the case, i would say you can learn those concepts all by yourself as well in your free time rather than following the curriculum because considering how the education system is right now, it will only give you an overview and not depth of those matters.

Ya, we are working towards a submission, it us going to take a couple of months more. Thesis not yet, i am in the years of my phd, so this would be one the first research papers.