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by impatient_bacon 2243 days ago
It's absolutely possible. I have an art degree and what I have found to be important is to have some impressive personal projects to show employers. Maybe not all of them will look at your portfolio but enough do that you should be able to get a job if it's good.

Falling in love with programming has been very fortunate for me because it is one of the few professions where you can show your skills with a portfolio instead of a piece of paper, and it pays pretty well
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qmmmur 2243 days ago
How did you manage to make the transition? I'm doing a PhD in music tech, lots of coding but not necessarily commercial applications. I'm not sure academia will work out for me as the jobs are so scarce and hard to get not to mention the insanity of things like impact and the REF (UK). Any insight would be great!
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impatient_bacon 2243 days ago
I made a bunch of mobile games with Unity that worked as a porfolio for Unity Development jobs. I had been wanting to transition into more traditional software development, and I was fortunate enough to be able to learn a front end stack at my previous job. I made this project over nights and weekends, and it was a significant factor in me getting my current job doing react development:

https://bitmelo.com

My best advice would be to try to make projects that are undeniably good. So good a company would be dumb not to hire you. Def easier said then done though.

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