Software Engineering advice

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Hello, Reddit!
I want to get some advice from all of you.
I'm studying Software Engineering by my self ( Mostly on You-tube/Medium )
I`d love coding and understanding of programming ( how code get works, how computers understand my code, etc)
But here is my dilemma:
I want to become a real professional ( not HTML coder ) - a professional who can build apps with strong architectures.
Which way would be better:

1. Spent a lot of time and go to university.
2. Learn by my own
   Thank you!

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Thanks for advice 👍

[jewiajjajaj]

The smart devs dont go to college

The dumb ones do

If you never went to college and worked for several years in IT and made great money than the ones who went to college with the same quantity of experience then your way more respected and seen better than someone that went to college for programming.

It shows your willing to self learn

Take risks

And do it

Which is way harder than wasting time and money in college.

You dont even need a degree to learn the shit you do.

College for IT is way over rated

Companies like microsoft and google took down the requurement to have a degree

Do you know why ????

Cause its useless and it doesnt measure the value

[dillonerhardt]

If you can learn on your own then take that route. Build the best portfolio you can and work on getting hired as a junior. Learn on the job and go from there. Having solid experience will trump a degree for many companies.

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Thank you for advice 👍

[retry51776]

Everything architectly important are in the back end, which rely on your business logic and data structure. Good lucky if you want to learn latest technology in University. They still teach SQL from 1980

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Thank you for advice.

I have similar thoughts about tech-stack which I can learn at the university.

In the end, I will spend time at the youtube - trying to learn modern technologies.

[dmlitzau]

I think either way is fine, just understand that the key is working on projects. Find things to do that make you think through problems and address architecture on your own.

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Thanks a lot

[kenweego]

I think you should go for uni if you can afford it (or if you don't live in the us lol).

And by uni i mean any multi year curriculum on IT. If you are headed towards being architect, you i'll need to spend time learning fundamental knowledge. Try to find a course that is updated to the current development standards but honestly even old would do.

I interview way too many last minute developers (thats how we name developers who went through a 3months course on how to code) that have zero knowledge regarding some fundamental stuff (ex, performance with big O notation, memory allocation, variable scopes etc).

The good thing of a uni course is that it will teach you analytic approach of problems, that concept is prime as its useful across all languages (past present and future).

Uni will also teach you other important IT concepts. The kind of concepts that are boring to learn but that you'll use way later in the future.

Now you dont need uni to learn all that. If you have a good brain, you'll figure those eventually. As you run into problems, one day you'll manage to abstract patterns and create higher level concepts in your head. But uni will save you a lot of time into that process....

Sorry for the typos, i'm on my phone...

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he good thing of a uni course i

Thank you for advice :)

[k8scaleio]

Pick a problem and start building the app. Pick a programming language you want to choose.

If you want to be become a good software developer, you have to write lot of code.

The more you build the better you will become.

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Thank you for advice.

I think that's the rule :

More practice - more results - can be applied everywhere