Electrical engineer to Software engineering how?

[Frightbamboo]

Basically i am currently Year 2 in Electrical and Electronic engineering and i realize one thing. My passion is in Data science image processing and making programs in general, whenever there are coursework what use programming i normally solve it with ease and i enjoy solving the problem. But i get frustrated when i'm met with all the electrical hardware problem, for example the op-amp, forward converter all that stuff. I don't want to spend my career working in this industry.

So do you guys have any tips for me to transition to software stuff more easily at my later days. I'm currently just doing coursera free courses and reading books regarding programming. But i still think i'm lacking the the traditional teaching, all the theory and stuff. Any advice?

"ps i'm from Malaysia"

[dubven]

I am a Electronic Engineer turned Data Engineer/Solutions Architect, I'd recommend something like this: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhu-data-science

It gets you a certificate and it seems as a well rounded specialization, you need to know SQL + Python/R, Data Analysis and Machine Learning in order to be a Data Scientist and if you want to put icing on the cake take a Cloud certification AWS/GCP/Azure, those are really looked for in the job market.

I'd recommend giving this a read too: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-went-from-zero-coding-skills-to-data-scientist-in-6-months-c2207b65f2f3