My bachelors degree was in a completely unrelated field, and I graduated with an embarrassingly low GPA. I was in too far to change my major so I stuck with it.
I have 5 years of Help Desk experience and got promoted to work for a short while to a business/sort of web dev position in the same company. I got to use SQL and HTML and CSS for rudimentary designing and reporting. I’m learning Javascript right now and trying figure out what I want to try building for a personal project.
I know I love tech, and I want to try software engineering. I want to go to community college and take some prerequisites and then do a fully online masters in CS. Is this a bad idea as opposed to doing a full bachelors in Computer Science? I’m only 24 but I don’t have a ton of money and the thought of being in school for 6 more years sounds not that great.
The Georgia Tech OMSCS program looks awesome but I don’t think I can get in without showing that I already took some CS classes and did very well. On that note, does it matter if you get your online masters from a no-name university?
Any advice for me, or has anyone been in a similar situation? How’d it work out for you?
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r/cscareerquestions My bachelors degree was in a completely unrelated field, and I graduated with an embarrassingly low GPA. I was in too far to change my major so I stuck with it. I have 5 years of Help Desk experience and got promoted to work for a short while to a business/sort of web dev position in the same company. I got to use SQL and HTML and CSS for rudimentary designing and reporting. I’m learning Javascript right now and trying figure out what I want to try building for a personal project. I know I love tech, and I want to try software engineering. I want to go to community college and take some prerequisites and then do a fully online masters in CS. Is this a bad idea as opposed to doing a full bachelors in Computer Science? I’m only 24 but I don’t have a ton of money and the thought of being in school for 6 more years sounds not that great. The Georgia Tech OMSCS program looks awesome but I don’t think I can get in without showing that I already took some CS classes and did very well. On that note, does it matter if you get your online masters from a no-name university? Any advice for me, or has anyone been in a similar situation? How’d it work out for you? submitted by /u/himomimfailing [link] [comments]
My bachelors degree was in a completely unrelated field, and I graduated with an embarrassingly low GPA. I was in too far to change my major so I stuck with it.
I have 5 years of Help Desk experience and got promoted to work for a short while to a business/sort of web dev position in the same company. I got to use SQL and HTML and CSS for rudimentary designing and reporting. I’m learning Javascript right now and trying figure out what I want to try building for a personal project.
I know I love tech, and I want to try software engineering. I want to go to community college and take some prerequisites and then do a fully online masters in CS. Is this a bad idea as opposed to doing a full bachelors in Computer Science? I’m only 24 but I don’t have a ton of money and the thought of being in school for 6 more years sounds not that great.
The Georgia Tech OMSCS program looks awesome but I don’t think I can get in without showing that I already took some CS classes and did very well. On that note, does it matter if you get your online masters from a no-name university?
Any advice for me, or has anyone been in a similar situation? How’d it work out for you?
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