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Does anyone have any suggestions on software development colleges in Texas, and in the United States in general?
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you study a lot on your own , do a lot of coding , when in doubt Google it , if Google not helping , ask in SoloLearn,
follow good PROGRAMMERs in SoloLearn , ask them for any guidance if ur really stuck.
learn
challenge
code a lot
talk less and do more ( I'm still working on this one๐
)
that's it
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see !!!
Mason Neville just opened a CS library in your post thread, and this is why I prefer community learning and solo learning
regarding ur doubts in this direction , take few steps give it few sincere months , you ll be giving me directions ๐
take suggestions from other people too for college , note that it's just my opinion
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This is an informative article best of luck!!!
https://www.greatvaluecolleges.net/affordable/computer-science-engineering/
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you know in retrospection , I regret wasting my 6 years ( 2 years extra for paperbacks๐
) for a CS degree from a mediocre college , although it was not bad as i was presented with all opportunities to grab , but I guess , when it comes to practical learning colleges are wastage of time, but not if you're going for degree sake.
after all what good is a programmer if he can't solve real life problems( and with real life I mean current generation, not stone age IT issues being taught at colleges, by retired enginneers , Industry quitters or wannabe SEs). well I am also to blame for not studying well, but since there are thousands like me in my country who feel the same therefore I feel there's something wrong with the system ( maybe USA has better teaching facilities and faculties even for mediocre colleges)
but sometimes college does inculcates few other values like ...
to get more open to world, friendship, trust , authenticity , and few other stuffs like that
but if going because of above reasons then army schools are better option.๐ธ( u can always learn programming later )
srry , for not providing any good college info for Texas coz I am from another country , but just wanted to share my feelings.
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@clint, why do you wanna learn programming, this question will help to answer ur question , trust me, take ur time,
example for me it's the best way to make money by doing things that I can enjoy (๐ sometimes), specifically talking then here it is, I played games for a very long time, surfed web for even longer time, now I don't wanna be a consumer of services but a creator of one , and you know what it just clicked me recently and has been driving me to study more and more, I learned more from courses , web tutorials , than my college could ever taught ( although it came a bit easy for me because of my background)
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this guy also knows what I am talking about, and he's ( was๐
) from MIT
https://youtu.be/6rT00QXqZak
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Interesting perspective Morpheus. Personally I have only been learning for around 3 months I started here and I am enjoying it.
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You can challenge players directly by going to their profile and on the top right you have options, one of which is challenge
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plus when you are low level and challenge higher level users, as long as you get a good answer or two you still make some xp, if you win, you make a load, if you lose with no good answers, you lose like 1xp
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To be honest, your best bet would be to go with the school out of the choices you have in which has the highest graduation-rate. These rates can be found by searching them online. A school with a high graduation-rate means that the professors are skilled when it comes to teaching their students in a way which has most of them (if not all) understanding the difficult concepts much quicker/easier. Software Development tends to be a very, very difficult field for some, so a professor's skill in teaching/lecturing is very important to their students.
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you gotta check your settings, currently you only accept java & c#, which I don't know that much either. You can challenge me in JS/HTML/C++/Python/C#
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I have heard UT Dallas mentioned a few times in the past. I can't recollect what was said, but to my knowledge, nothing bad was said about it.
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find a project, work on it, find out how to do it by studying the existing litterature, when there's something you don't get, ask the community ; SL - Stack - [...]
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Okay, thanks. I've been kind of thinking about UT Dallas, have you heard anything about that one?
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I believe the 3 first items do deliver certificates/diplomas ;
http://www.openculture.com
https://www.udemy.com
www.coursera.org
http://exercism.io/
www.stackoverflow.com
www.stackexchange.com
https://redditfavorites.com/books/programming/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn
https://www.42.us.org/
https://www.appacademy.io/
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/510275/?ref=app
https://www.gamasutra.com
www.freecodecamp.org
www.w3schools.com
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/be-a-coder-books
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/923664/?ref=app
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I'm very new and very interested in community learning
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so, how exactly does community learning work?
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lol interesting, okay
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at the current time I'm interested in app development. I have Android studio, unity, and unreal engine, but I'm unfamiliar with the bazaarness of the Android coding, a lot of imports and things I don't understand, and I don't know any c# for unity. in fact, I got this app so that I could begin learning c# and this app has been a lot more and a lot better than I expected.
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okay, thanks!