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by pestatije 1942 days ago
Have you considered a postdoc or masters degree? It's just one year, plus they're flexible on time schedules.

Also, formal employers like public service usually consider your postdoc subject as equivalent to degree subject. And I have colleagues with chemistry and physics degrees who got the job just because they did a computer science subject.
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TheGrkIntrprtr 1942 days ago
The Georgia Tech OMSCS is one option I'm considering which would be more flexible, but I'd definitely need some more courses under my belt before they'd accept me. Unfortunately it'd probably take longer, 3 yrs or so part time I'm guessing.

The kind of 1 year MS in CS masters requiring little or no background that exist in the US aren't really available in Canada as far as I know.

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jphamtastic 1941 days ago
I would take a chance and apply if you have a fair amount of experience. I hadn't taken a class in CS ever before but talked about my experience on the data science team at work. It ended up being good enough for me to get in to OMSCS.
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