Is it viable to start uni first degree in CS at 30 years of age

I don't know about the employment of graduates with a bit more years than usual, but other than that I see completely no problem with starting CS studies at age of 30.

>>58116972
We have a few mature students and they find it fine, have integrated well etc.
You miss out on the social side of things (if you aren't like me and don't actually go out) but you probably don't want to do that anyway.

Location wise maybe a problem- coming to and thro might get annoying for lectures and things.


Go for it.

Don't count on getting work at any big companies. I hate to throw the word "ageism" around, but literally they do not want to hire anyone older than 25.

That being said, go for it. There are still many companies out there that will hire you if you can prove yourself. I graduated with a 40 year old guy and he works at an IT firm now making twice what he used to.

>>58116972

In my opinion, unless you're attending a top-ranked university for CS, there is no point in a CS degree.

99% of what people do with a CS degree doesn't involve any meaningful amount of actual CS. CS is babby math, and it's not even very good at that at MOST universities.

If you want a degree, then either get a real, hard degree (EE, mech E, physics, mathematics), or if you're not smart and focused enough to hack that, then get a business degree and *maybe* a CS minor.

If I were hiring, I'd take a person with a decent amount of independent, real-world, domain knowledge and no degree or a business degree over someone with a CS degree and no experience. Seriously, I've interviewed recent CS grads and honestly have no idea what value they think they're going to provide a company. It's nice that they figured out Big-O notation, but they often have literally no idea how to actually create software.

Hell, do a bootcamp and read up on complexity on Wikipedia if you just want to find work as a programmer.

That said, there's nothing significantly different about attending at age 30. I had a couple of older folks in my graduating year. They seemed to get more respect from professors and potential employers even though they weren't anywhere near as competent as my friends and me.

>>58117035
You're full of shit.

>>58117020
Yeah, thats fine. I just want to do what i have been doing 30 years now, lounch on an office chair.
I plan on becoming a sys admin.

>>58117054

If you want to refute something, then make an argument. Otherwise, fuck off.

The best software engineers I've worked with were former EE's. The most annoying, pedantic ones who never produced anything of value, but were always stirring up drama, were CS grads from a mid-ranked CS program.

Seriously, CS programs are a joke. They're halfway between mathematical theory and practical domain knowledge, and they generally do a mediocre job of each.

Looking back, probably 90% of the people who graduated with me had literally *zero* real-world programming experience, other than the joke of a project they had us do as a sort of 'thesis'. This complete lack of real-world experience creating value is what I've seen in every one of the new grads I've ever interviewed. I'm sure there are good ones out there, I just never met one.

>>58117083
I have better things to do right now than argue with someone full of shit like you.
Informatics is awesome, you fuck off.

>>58117104

What the fuck are you talking about? OP asked about a CS degree.

Learn to use your words or just shut the fuck up. You're not adding anything to the discussion, spergburger.

>>58117132
You mad, bro? :)

>>58117055
if you want to be a sysadmin, do MIS. Wayyyyy easier than CS so you could realistically get a 4.0 without much effort and land some of that gud IT cash

>>58117035
This shit is objectively wrong. Everywhere but the largest of companies will assume you know your shit during the hiring process and will simply be looking to weed out the people that are lying. If you come in with a bootcamp cert or even worse personal projects you'll almost always be passed over by everyone that isn't completely desperate and you will be given the hardest interview they can come up with just to show you're maybe at the level of someone with a CS degree

>>58117141

Stop shitposting, cunt. And just because someone speaks to you with the language you deserve doesn't imply they're "mad".

>>58117184
Yup, you're mad :D This is exactly why you don't get along with people. You're stiff, you should relax.

>>58117178
>Everywhere but the largest of companies will assume you know your shit during the hiring process and will simply be looking to weed out the people that are lying.

Uh. Have you ever even been interviewed? That in no way reflects the interview process *anywhere*.

Everyone knows the field is full of dumbshits who are either lying about their experience (like the "contractor" who didn't know how a for loop works) or who graduated without actually learning anything (every one of the new grads I've hired).

>If you come in with a bootcamp cert or even worse personal projects you'll almost always be passed over by everyone that isn't completely desperate and you will be given the hardest interview they can come up with just to show you're maybe at the level of someone with a CS degree

You really have no clue what you're talking about. Unless you're coming in referred by a highly respected team member, you're going to get grilled anywhere. The only exceptions to this are shops that don't know how to conduct a rigorous interview.

I'm not saying a bootcamp is going to get your resume to the top of the pile, but it's going to give you more experience in actually writing code that creates business value than virtually any CS program out there.

>>58117202

More shitposting from the spergburger.

>>58117168
MIS?

Not OP, but similar.

>>58117007
How do you miss the social aspects? I'm 29 and look 19-22.

>>58117020
Not true. As stated, I am 29 and Amazon expressed interest in interviewing me.


>>58117035
Good thing I have a pure math degree and now going back to school studying CS.

>>58117626
>Good thing I have a pure math degree and now going back to school studying CS.

Then why the hell would you go back to school for CS? There is literally zero reason to do that.

>>58118216
Want to do a PhD in it. Might just work in industry instead. I aced my first CS course.

>>58117626
>and Amazon expressed interest in interviewing me.
Not worth it, even for the name on a resume. Its culture is absolute shite, so much so someone actually attempted to be an hero (but failed).

>>58118251
Yeah, I am somewhat hesitant. I decided to ultimately not follow up too hard on them.

Study statistics and get a job doing data science. Get a complimentary degree that makes you a specialist then you can probably be hired. CS is a math degree anyway

>>58118459
This