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by orange_county 3380 days ago
Both would be great but there is only a limited amount of time in a day.

The fastest way to get into the industry is doing projects. However I would take the specific approach that some other member posted here. Find local companies near your area, research their product and build a programming project that is related to their business. Then email them directly to a few key players of the company to showcase what you did.

After you get the job, you can start focusing on CS theory. There are tons of materials online for CS theory such as Coursera, Udacity and edx.

Good luck!