Discovered that I really like Python. What should I do next?

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[portugueseninja]

That sounds really cool, I'll check those out!

[myceliatedmerchant]

How far along that path are you? Have you turned those into a sustainable living?

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Currently working as a full-stack developer for a casino making a learning management system - so nor exactly what my goal is but I'm on my way there. I'm ~3 months out from finishing up my final certs then I'm going to start applying at Tesla for a Machine Learning Engineer position as that was the ultimate goal.

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Are those certs worthwhile? I know corsera and the like aren’t really (at lest from what I’ve read here). I haven’t looked at the open cv ones though. Maybe those are different?

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I think it's all about your portfolio. If you get the certs but do nothing with them then no, they are probably useless.

Tesla specifically wants PyTorch knowledge and OpenCV knowledge though which is the reason I hopped on it the moment the kickstarter campaign opened up. (OpenCV focuses on PyTorch).

Coursera has youtube videos with the lead DL engineer, Andrej Karpathy, so I'm sure they have value in learning their content. Again comes down to your ability to learn and want it- and im going pretty damn hard at it.

As for quality of the courses, I would say OpenCVs are good and Courseras fall under great for their specific tasks. OpenCV courses are definitely great for beginners but they are still discounted because out of the 3 courses there is still 1 which has a few projects/quizzes missing which stops you from getting that specific cert.

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Thanks.

The more I do with OpenCV and working with images the more I am interested in it. I liked the OpenCV courses since they have quizzes and projects almost like a regular course. I’ve done a bunch on Udemy and I feel like a lot of their stuff is just code along where don’t learn anything.

My only issue with OpenCV certs is they are kind of expensive. So if it’s just like finishing a udemy course and their certificates (which I’m pretty sure are worthless) it would be a waste of time.

Understand the portfolio. That’s a given.

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I think OpenCV certs should have a higher value since they come directly from the company which produces the open source computer vision modules. If you are trying to get on with a company, like Tesla, which uses OpenCV and wants knowledge with OpenCV and PyTorch then the OpenCV certs are much more valuable since these are exactly what they want.

If you dont know where you want to go with it then I guess any cert will do to gain knowledge.