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by lsiebert 3330 days ago
There is also stuff more to the system operations and deployment side of things, jobs like devOps Engineer, release engineering, site reliability engineering, etc.

Honestly, I really wish there were easier ways to go back and get a second bachelors degree or cheap masters degree for CS, for those of us with a Bachelors in another field and who are self taught. I don't need a boot camp, I've got the basics down, But I would definitely benefit from a credential like an MS or BS in CS, and it wouldn't hurt to have some additional instruction on things like constructing parsers, complex data structures (interval trees, k-d trees and other means of space partitioning) with an emphasis on what solutions exist for which problems, etc.

The later I can learn on my own, but a good teacher can speed learning tremendously, and help you retain material to boot. The academic credential, though, isn't something you can get through industry, which seems a shame when even places like starbucks have business degrees that use on the job training to substitute for classroom time.

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There is an online Masters Degree in CS for a fraction of the cost of full-time attendance at Georgia Tech[1]. I think the requirement is any undergrad degree.

https://www.omscs.gatech.edu