I'm looking for two (separate) 6 month self study programs: one for data science and the other for blockchain development.<p>Goal: Be able to get an entry level job (~$75K in San Francisco). Do comment on the feasibility of this goal.<p>Background:
- Strong Computer Science background with advanced degrees but I went to school when there were green screens, and I have not written a line of production code in ~20 years.
- I have 10-20 hours per week.<p>Preferences:
- I find that instructor-led programs are too slow and I get bored; hence, a self study program.
- I want something with massive amounts of feedback. The best I've found is Udacity for software development and Dataquest.io for data science. Haven't found anything for blockchain.<p>Biases: This is not hard. It can't be hard when a non-STEM major can go to a data science bootcamp (like Flatiron) and have an 85% chance of getting a $75K job. Hard is winning the Best Paper Award at NIPS.<p>Response to "if you could self study, you wouldn't need to ask this question" and similar: Thank you for your input.
For blockchain development, find a coin you are interested in. And learn the programming stack for it. Ada/cardano is just now coming online. Polkadot as well.<p>Some Resources:<p>All things - blockchain:
<a href="https://github.com/Xel/Blockchain-stuff" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Xel/Blockchain-stuff</a><p>Polkadot Development:
<a href="https://wiki.polkadot.network/" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.polkadot.network/</a>
If you are watching instructor led courses, you can speed up the videos on many platforms. I tend to watch videos on Plural Site or Coursera on 1.5x or 2x speed. It keeps things from being boring.