I'm lying to my parents, I'm supposed to learn computer science but sadly I'm not. I don't know what to do.

• computer-science

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  :mortar_board: Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!

  

Yeah, I'm living with my parents (22 y/o btw). I dropped out of college to study computer science on my own, I "made a deal" with my parents that in two years I'll be competent enough to get myself a job at a company. Here we are 1.5 yrs later, 6 months to go and I have nothing to show, haven't finished a single course, book, tutorial, nothing. I don't know what to do. Do I need a slap on the face to wake up from my hibernation or do I give up and do something else. I really wanna study computer science, I think it's a good path for me. I can spend roughly 40 hours a week studying, I don't know if that's a good amount of work for someone like me. I know learning something like cs is not an overnight thing, this shit takes time, I want to at least get to a point where I have something to show and hide the fact that I've just started 6 months ago. I'm gonna follow these curricula with slight changes ofc : https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/gsansp/my_55step_selftaught_cs_curriculum_updated/ https://teachyourselfcs.com https://github.com/ossu/computer-science What do you guys think? Can I do it? Love to hear from you.

• curriculum

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Try a bootcamp. That's what I'm doing, at App Academy, and it's improved my game incredibly in the 3 months I've been here, along with my confidence in the interview process. The entire curriculum is actually available for free too, but like you, I find it hard to stay on track by myself sometimes, so I'm doing the full-time immersive. Some great free resources that provide an orderly, coherent path to what we want are freeCodeCamp (https://www.freecodecamp.org/), the Odin Project (https://www.theodinproject.com/), MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn), and definitely the free curriculum offered by, App Academy (https://www.appacademy.io/course/app-academy-open).

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• cs-topics

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  My personal curriculum covering basic CS topics. This might be useful for self-taught developers... A work in development! This might take a very long time to get finished!

Yeah, I'm living with my parents (22 y/o btw). I dropped out of college to study computer science on my own, I "made a deal" with my parents that in two years I'll be competent enough to get myself a job at a company. Here we are 1.5 yrs later, 6 months to go and I have nothing to show, haven't finished a single course, book, tutorial, nothing. I don't know what to do. Do I need a slap on the face to wake up from my hibernation or do I give up and do something else. I really wanna study computer science, I think it's a good path for me. I can spend roughly 40 hours a week studying, I don't know if that's a good amount of work for someone like me. I know learning something like cs is not an overnight thing, this shit takes time, I want to at least get to a point where I have something to show and hide the fact that I've just started 6 months ago. I'm gonna follow these curricula with slight changes ofc : https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/gsansp/my_55step_selftaught_cs_curriculum_updated/ https://teachyourselfcs.com https://github.com/ossu/computer-science What do you guys think? Can I do it? Love to hear from you.

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