{"id":43,"date":"2022-04-14T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/?p=43"},"modified":"2022-04-14T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:46:39","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/2022\/04\/14\/back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The year is 2019, I am now going into the 3rd year of my programming hobby\/career transition and I haven&#8217;t had much luck with job interviews. I&#8217;ve built so many side projects (mostly front-end) that I can&#8217;t even list all of them on my resume and there was the realization that I don&#8217;t care for aesthetics on a software application. I knew from the breadth of projects that I had built and my programming knowledge that the only viable career path for me was a Front-End developer. Which was unfortunate for me since I only enjoyed the problem solving aspect of programming. <strong>Darn, what a waste of 2 years or so I thought!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I though about going back to school but wasn&#8217;t sure if I would enjoy learning about Computer Science. After some google searching, I discovered a free MOOC from Harvard called CS50. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5434\/files\/2022\/04\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5434\/files\/2022\/04\/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5434\/files\/2022\/04\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My plan at the time was to take this free course and if I enjoyed it, enroll in a CS program. Else, start teaching myself back-end development. To my surprise, not only was learning about Computer Science very enjoyable but the programming skill which I had developed over the past 2 years had an integral part in this field of study. I was hooked and I knew with absolute certainty after finishing CS50  that an education in CS was what I wanted. Looking back, I can proudly say that the 10 weeks I spent on CS50 was the beginning of my journey as a Computer Science student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished CS50 in June 2019 and applied to Oregon State University in July 2019 and here I am in my last quarter. It has been a great journey and I look forward to the exciting future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year is 2019, I am now going into the 3rd year of my programming hobby\/career transition and I haven&#8217;t had much luck with job interviews. I&#8217;ve built so many side projects (mostly front-end) that I can&#8217;t even list all of them on my resume and there was the realization that I don&#8217;t care for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}