Software Engineering

[Double J]

There's a reason that it pays so much. It's not easy. People look at the salary and say, "I need to do that... " It's something you have to love because if you don't know what you're doing, then there's no talking your way around this or that. You need to have a love for it, because you WILL be spending a ton of time learning something that, if you don't like, you will find extremely boring. The key to behind programming is you HAVE to know what you are doing.

You don't even need a degree, but as I said, you have to realize that there is no slack. You can't talk your way in and out of anything. Either you have the knowledge to make your program work or you don't. Some of the best programmers don't have degrees, but they have study habits and experimentation habits that far surpass what would be needed for the typical degree.

See if it's for you first. Pick a language and attempt to learn it. See if you can study and experiment with it for hours a day. If it draws you in, it may be for you.

How true is the whole you don't need a degree thing? Cuz I'd say about 90% of the job postings I see require a Computer Science degree.

 

[Richard Wright]

How true is the whole you don't need a degree thing? Cuz I'd say about 90% of the job postings I see require a Computer Science degree.

Not true at all. There is a difference between a software engineer and a programmer/developer.

 

[kevm3]

at learning a language. Thats the easy part. Being language agnostic makes you . Its just different philosophies though




nikka stop stalling and take the class. Either you will love it or you wont. This shyt is crack to me

Yeah, staying confined in one language is definitely going to get you in trouble and vastly limit you as a programmer. However, if he wants to get started, he has to see if it's for him, so I recommend him picking up a language and becoming functional in it, and if he likes it, then invest more resources into his education in this field. A lot of people see the salaries that are getting pulled down with these sort of jobs, but it's high paying for a reason. I believe this is a field where you have to spend a ton of time outside of work studying and experimenting, so if it's not something you love to do, I'd be wary of entering it. You can become obsolete very quickly.