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by bra-ket 3182 days ago
I studied at the same school while working full time (got my bachelors when I was 39)

It was a great experience, besides taking CS courses and Columbia Core I've also done some undergrad research in machine learning in one of the labs. It helped landing a job in R&D while I was still studying.

I'd recommend to contact professors doing interesting work and volunteer as a 'research programmer', previous SW dev experience helps a lot. They get free labor and you get to work on exciting stuff that changes your career.