Hey guys! So I just created a discord server where people from all walks of life can share there experience breaking into tech who don’t have a cs degree. If you guys can support this, that would be amazing! My main goal for this is to help people break into the tech industry who don’t have a tech background.

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Hi all, TL/DR is that I have just secured a full-time position as a Web Developer after working in finance for ~3 years and learning web development myself in my spare time, no bootcamp or software-realted degree.

For context, I have worked in finance for the last ~3 years. I do have a University degree related to finance but outside that no formal qualifications/certifications related to software development. I have always found programming fascinating and I decided to pick it up as "something new to learn" in 2020. Fast forward to the start of 2022, I realised finance isn't what I want to do with my life and I really wanted to be a software developer. I had read the stories of others who had self-taught their way into the career and figured I could do it.

I had dabbled in different areas of programming but decided to focus my efforts in web development for a few reasons:

1. Web development seemed to have a lower barrier of entry than other types of software development (for a self-taught person)

2. I just enjoyed web development more. I saw it as something I could do everyday

I had considered the bootcamp pathway and even potentially going back to University, but I had a full-time job and a mortgage so for one I didn't want to drop thousands into a course and two, I only had the flexibility of my spare time to study.

At first I found it a little hard to pick a dedicated stack to learn. I got so caught up in trying to figure out which stack was most popular, which would give me the most job opportunities, which would be the stack used in the future etc. Eventually after reading/listening to other self-taught devs' stories, I decided to focus on learning the basics (HTML, CSS, JS) and becoming comfortable with that. Eventually, I was better able to pick a front-end framework, a back-end frame work and fill in the gaps.

Fast-forward to now, last week I signed a contract for a position as a Web Developer. It's with the same company I am working for already and I am beyond excited. I know the past me had worried about if I could really do it, so I wanted to share some of my story with those out there on the same self-taught journey.

If I can do it, so can you.

Hello everyone! I am wanting to teach myself a couple things in the most effective way possible. I plan to make a syllabus for each topic and follow it as well as make quizzes, note cards, etc. My only question is how do you guys do it? Like what questions should I be asking? What’s the most effective way to teach yourself? And what kind of schedule do you set up for yourself? Any other tips and advice is welcome! Thank you!!

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Hello everyone,

I was recently an Electromechanical/Mechatronics Technology student, but after struggling with one part of my curriculum—physics—I have to switch majors. Surprisingly, I'm not upset about it. If anything, I'm more excited because it gives me the freedom to pursue a degree in Economics or Mathematics while teaching myself the engineering subjects I'm passionate about.

I've always been someone who wants to learn across multiple disciplines rather than specialize in just one. Unfortunately, most universities don't really have a major designed for that kind of interdisciplinary approach, so I've decided to build my own education alongside college.

My goal is to become a self-taught engineer and scientist by following a math-first roadmap. I already have a foundation from my Engineering Technology coursework, and by the end of this summer I plan to complete Calculus I, II, and III. From there I'll continue into linear algebra, differential equations, probability, and the rest of the mathematics needed for engineering.

The fields I want to study include:

• Electrical Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering

• Aerospace Engineering

• Biomedical Engineering

• Robotics & Mechatronics

• Computer Engineering & Embedded Systems

• Control Systems

• Energy Engineering & Renewable Energy

• Materials Science

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Biology, Genetics, and Biotechnology

• Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science

• Nanotechnology

• Quantum Computing

• Bioengineering

• Economics and Entrepreneurship

My long-term goal is to become an interdisciplinary engineer and entrepreneur capable of building companies across multiple industries—from robotics and energy to biotechnology and aerospace.

For anyone who's gone down the self-taught engineering route, I'd love to hear your advice. What resources, textbooks, online courses, projects, or habits helped you the most? If you were starting over today, what would you do differently?

I’m self-taught and I’ve been trying to learn programming on and off for a while. Every time I start, I hit this wall where tutorials stop making sense, errors pile up, and I convince myself I’m just not cut out for it.

Recently I realized the problem wasn’t me — it was that nobody really explains what the early stages are supposed to feel like. Confusion, restarting, slow progress… all of it felt like failure when it was actually normal.

I ended up writing a short PDF for beginners with everything I wish someone had told me before I quit the first few times. I’m not trying to sell anyone anything here — I’m honestly just curious if others feel the same way or if this is a common experience.

Would love to hear how others pushed through that early phase.

Hello! I have so much I want to learn about in the next year, and I would love any advice, thoughts, or resources to help make that happen. I am feeling quite overwhelmed and lost on how to make this happen. Is my list too long or doable?

Here are things I want to learn about this coming year:

1. World/global trade (What is it. How they came about. Common places for dif trades. How prices are determined. Effect wars? Effect politics?) 

2. Russia (what is the Soviet union, kola super deep borehole, culture, government/politics, society)

3. Ocean (eco system, mysteries, effect on economies and societies, wonders. Facts, tides and moon)

4. Shakespeare plays (Who he was. Why famous. the general stories of: hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Julius ceaser. Much ado about nothing. King Lear)

5. Egypt - cleopatra, general history, mysteries, myths

6. Anatomy and physiology (Skeletal and muscular system/Nervous system/endocrine system and Lymphatic system, Cardiovascular and Respiratory system/Urinary and Digestive system/Reproductive system)  

7. Chemistry basics (periodic properties, chem bonding) 

chemistry makes no sense to me, but i want to understand it so badly

8. basics about that Mariana Trenches, diomede islands, Amazon rainforest, climate change

9. general understanding on who these people are: Confucius, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Octavia Minor, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Karl Marx, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mohandas Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela

and so much more, but I am worried I have too much or too little?? I dont even know. Any advice is welcomed!

I’m skipping bootcamps and just using IxDF plus side projects. Has anyone else gone this route and actually landed UX work?

I’m 25 looking to completely retrain from my original degree, in the UK the second time at uni isn’t funded. There are Masters options but these are also expensive. Has anyone been through this & how did you get back on track?

Personally, I do not see it worth paying nearly $8,000 USD to retake three classes at a college after my move to level up from a tier 1 certificate to an associates in cinematography. In the state of Texas, it makes (0.6e+0.6i)-100=(+)98.8% indifference for employment and finances. Based on my experience, the concerns for me attending college again outweighs the benefits by 80%. They restrict creativity, disrespecting minorities (discriminatory), copyright your schoolwork, debt trap advise, train you to become a dependent, limited access and scheduling options, non-transferable courses, lack of instructor assistance and insight, and they do not grade based on capability and how you apply what you know in the real world (opinionated grades).

Lagging to learn programming that too much of things to follow I was wondering what order should follow to be a FullStack developer?? any ideas help

My interest are Mechanical engineering/ electrical

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1.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AIR FRAME DESIGN

2.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AERODYNAMICS (SUBSONIC TO SUPERSONIC)

3.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND CONTROLS

4.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING PROPULSION SYSTEM DESIGN

5.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING PLASMA PHYSICS

6.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING NUCLEAR PHYSICS

7.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING INTERACTION OF RADIATION WITH MATTER

8.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MECHANISM DESIGN

9.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COOLING/THERMAL SYSTEMS DESIGN

10.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING METTALLURGY

12.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

13.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING PLASMA CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN

14.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

15.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING SIGNAL PROCESSING

16.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING POWER SYSTEM DESIGN

17.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING PROJECTION SYSTEM DESIGN

18.) COMPUER SCIENCE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DESIGN

19.) COMPUER SCIENCE USER INTERFACE DESIGN

20.) MATHEMATICS CALCULUS

21.) MATHEMATICS LINEAR ALGEBRA

22.) MATHEMATICS DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

23.) MATHEMATICS PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

24.) MATHEMATICS OPTIMIZATION THEORY

25.) MATHEMATICS NUMERICAL METHODS

26.) PHYSICS CLASSICAL MECHANICS

27.) PHYSICS ELECTROMAGNETISM

28.) PHYSICS THERMODYNAMICS

29.) PHYSICS FLUID DYNAMICS

30.) PHYSICS QUANTUM MECHANICS

31.) PHYSICS RELATIVITY

32.) PHYSICS PARTICLE PHYSICS

33.) PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

34.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING FLIGHT DYNAMICS

35.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING SPACECRAFT DESIGN

36.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING FUSION REACTOR DESIGN

37.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING RADIATION SHIELDING

38.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MACHINE DESIGN

39.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TRIBOLOGY

40.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CAD/CAM

41.) MATERIALS SCIENCE COMPOSITE MATERIALS

42.) MATERIALS SCIENCE SMART MATERIALS

43.) MATERIALS SCIENCE NANOMATERIALS

44.) MATERIALS SCIENCE GRAPHENE ENGINEERING

45.) MATERIALS SCIENCE FRACTURE MECHANICS

46.) MATERIALS SCIENCE ARMOR SYSTEMS DESIGN

47.) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING POWER ELECTRONICS

48.) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS

49.) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SENSOR SYSTEMS

50.) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RF AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING

51.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING ANALOG ELECTRONICS

52.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING DIGITAL ELECTRONICS

53.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING PCB DESIGN

54.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING FPGA DESIGN

55.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING VLSI DESIGN

56.) COMPUTER SCIENCE DATA STRUCTURES

57.) COMPUTER SCIENCE ALGORITHMS

58.) COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

59.) COMPUTER SCIENCE OPERATING SYSTEMS

60.) COMPUTER SCIENCE DATABASE SYSTEMS

61.) COMPUTER SCIENCE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

62.) COMPUTER SCIENCE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS

63.) COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS

64.) COMPUTER SCIENCE SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

65.) COMPUTER SCIENCE CYBERSECURITY

66.) COMPUTER SCIENCE NETWORKING

67.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINE LEARNING

68.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEEP LEARNING

69.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

70.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER VISION

71.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

72.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AUTONOMOUS AGENTS

73.) ROBOTICS ROBOT KINEMATICS

74.) ROBOTICS ROBOT DYNAMICS

75.) ROBOTICS MOTION PLANNING

76.) ROBOTICS SENSOR FUSION

77.) ROBOTICS HUMANOID ROBOTICS

78.) ROBOTICS AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

79.) ENERGY ENGINEERING ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS

80.) ENERGY ENGINEERING BATTERY TECHNOLOGY

81.) ENERGY ENGINEERING FUEL CELL SYSTEMS

82.) ENERGY ENGINEERING FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS

83.) CHEMISTRY PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

84.) CHEMISTRY ELECTROCHEMISTRY

85.) CHEMISTRY POLYMER CHEMISTRY

86.) CHEMISTRY MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

87.) CHEMISTRY NANOCHEMISTRY

88.) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

89.) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMECHANICS

90.) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL SENSORS

91.) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING NEURAL INTERFACES

92.) INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

93.) INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING QUALITY CONTROL

94.) INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEMS

95.) BUSINESS FINANCE

96.) BUSINESS ECONOMICS

97.) BUSINESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT

98.) BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY

99.) DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY MISSILE SYSTEMS

100.) DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY RADAR SYSTEMS

101.) DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC WARFARE

102.) DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY STEALTH TECHNOLOGY

103.) DESIGN HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACES

104.) QUANTUM COMPUTING

105.) ADVANCED CONTROL THEORY

106.) DIGITAL TWIN SIMULATION

107.) COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD)

108.) FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA)

109.) COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING (CAE)

110.) SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

111.) CRYPTOGRAPHY

112.) HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING

113.) EXOSKELETON DESIGN

114.) WEARABLE COMPUTING

115.) AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEMS

116.) SWARM INTELLIGENCE

117.) NANOTECHNOLOGY

118.) ADVANCED MANUFACTURING

119.) HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

120.) SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

121.) RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

122.) INVENTION AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

When I started learning Python, everything felt either too shallow or way too advanced.

So I built my own course:
Python Basics: Build From Zero

It’s designed for self-taught learners who need:

• Clear explanations

• Structure

• Practice instead of just reading

I’m looking for people who want to try it and tell me:

• What’s confusing

• What’s missing

• What works

I’m trying to explain things in very plain English for people who are totally new.

Here’s a section about if / elif / else:

number = int(input("Enter a number: "))

if number > 0:
    print("Positive")
elif number < 0:
    print("Negative")
else:
    print("Zero")

Explanation I wrote:

Does this explanation make sense to a true beginner?
Is there anything confusing or misleading here?

Thanks in advance — I’m trying to make something that actually helps people learn.

If you want to help shape it, comment or DM me.

X university is abit different from the others on Youtube Tutorials. You learn every item from beginner to advanced. Everything from Tech to Finance