I am just a lurker on this group but this conversation has been fascinating and very timely.
I currently work in the oilfield in Alberta Canada, I have taken many courses at UVU in computer science, but was broke and had a family so I had to make some more money. I paid off all my debt and am piling up money to go back to school...but I am extremely torn since I want the most bang for my buck and I want to progress quickly back into the computer science field. If I go to the University of Alberta I figured that tuition and books will be an additional $20k. I've made many Android apps, C# programs, PHP, JavaScript and the like...I really want to come back but don't know anybody who is like minded so I don't have a community to stay up all night "hacking" with. What would this group suggest? Go back to school or just go to employers and show them what I have done so far? Michael Hart MY BLOG: http://hartsoffice.wordpress.com/ HOME PAGE: http://hartsoffice.com/ TWITTER: http://twitter.com/TheHartsOffice FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/michael.redxdeath GOOGLE+: https://plus.google.com/108967967563278141587 > On Mar 25, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Kyle Waters <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/25/2014 11:16 AM, Justin Giboney wrote: >> If they could come to you with something in their portfolio from >> the course, what would it be? > > > An SQL database driven webapp. Extra points for AJAX. That's what I'd > like to see. Some employers would probably prefer certain frameworks, > or javascript libraries. I've noticed a lot of jobs for front end > developers, so extra work on the UI could go a long ways in the current > job market. > > Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
