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by zeroego 1787 days ago
I just recently accepted my first Software Development position. Copy pasting from another post but this is basically how I did it:

2015 - Graduated with BA in History.

2018 - Started self teaching how to program, got an office job and automated everything I could.

2019 - Took four semesters of night classes to meet the math per-requisites for my local CS program.

2020 - Took a butt load of CS classes while working.

2021 - Finally convinced my company to let me help the software team (part-time).

July 2021 - Partner gets job out of state, apply for dev jobs in that city even though I hadn't finished my degree.

August 2021 - After a long interview process, accepted an offer for my very first software development job!

Books that really helped: The Players Guide to C# by RB Whitaker, Learn to Program by Chris Pine