Comment by Mark on "Advice on schooling"

I think you can learn pretty much anything online, almost equally well, and for free.

But it'll be harder to prove to future employers. You can make some websites though, which helps.

Depending on the job market where you are, there might be some 3 month bootcamps that teach some webdev. What you can learn in 3 month is somewhat limited of course (thats why online), but many people seems to get hired after that.

Recent tweet about the websites to show future employers (that got quite some discussion):

A rich GitHub profile is like a college degree:

It's a positive signal, one of dozens possible

Not everybody has the time and resources to get one

Having one does not necessarily mean you're good at your job

Ignoring one would be silly

Requiring one would be silly

So the major thing is building stuff? I totally agree with learning stuff online which is what I already do. I am currently learning python and javascript and I can do some stuff with them.

The main thing for learning is building stuff. But while some very popular companies look at that as an important hiring criterion, a lot of others don't. That's why the bootcamp is useful, it'll at leave give it's own certificate, and perhaps something official (I find the content of many official certifications to be useless, but quite some companies respect them). Some bootcamps even have some type of no-job-money-back-guarantee, or a company may sponsor you to do it.

That said, going to school is also a totally valid way, just probably more expensive. But you'll learn stuff and it'll help find a job.

Build everything, the best world: CREATE, if you need money that fast, i would recommend udacity. Its not very cheap, but for what you get back, it is worth. If you need some specific thing to complete your learning, go to udemy. Coursera is also good. But remeber: CREATE anything that is cool and useful in some eay.

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