Community colleges are drastically under-rated I think. We've ended up in a weird situation where inexpensive teaching-first institutions (Universities are really better set up for generating research) have, essentially, no prestige for some reason. But it is 2022, we don't have to become computer scientists and invent new theories to program the dang things. Programming-as-a-trade is a niche that needs to be filled, and a place that'll let you bang out a degree in a couple years, focused on practical stuff, ought to be... if not the default path, at least a significant one.
And besides, at least the community colleges in my region feed into the big local university. Why do people want to pay world-renown researchers to teach them programming 101? It is like having Stephen King teach introductory grammar -- there just isn't that much enlightenment that can be packed into "the syntax of if statements."
And besides, at least the community colleges in my region feed into the big local university. Why do people want to pay world-renown researchers to teach them programming 101? It is like having Stephen King teach introductory grammar -- there just isn't that much enlightenment that can be packed into "the syntax of if statements."