My knowledge is limited when it comes to USA school system, but is it very uncommon there?<p>"Here", you can study at weekends (4 or 8 days a month system) and it costs you like (ofc it's degree dependent, but we're talking about CS) like 10 minimal wages for 7 semesters and that's where people with jobs/kids/married go<p>Of course you can also choose that path when you're 20, so this way you can have 3.5 years of experience at the moment of graduation
Best of luck.<p>I'm 32 and just started my data science course. I'm so excited and terrified by what seems to be basic calculus and logic for others.<p>I'm a pentester/security guy with no formal background in anything. I was a waiter until I was 27, but always hacked and coded around a bit since I was a young kid. I've done well for myself professionally in the last 5 years, I'm good at the soft skills and speaking, but I always felt so inadequate compared to the serious engineers who did "serious" degrees. Hence why I want to get a serious degree to talk serious stuff with my ML engineer colleagues.