Glad it was helpful!

You can join the OMSCS Student Life group on Slack with your GT email, many large cities have their own channels

Hey Keyshawn! My employer did cover the cost of the CC classes, but since you have a math background you may not need many classes to get an Associate's in CS. Maybe then your employer would pay? I did an engineering undergrad and I think I only needed like 2 more CC classes to get my Associate's. I considered it but didn't end up going for it since I was going do OMSCS anyways

@@sam_cant_code Thanks man, that’s a good idea. I think they’re unlikely to cover it given it has to be directly related to my role (currently on the business side hoping to transition to tech eventually) but definitely worth a shot. It’s nice to know there’s companies out there with a more liberal tuition reimbursement policies, thought they were all more or less the same.

Two from academia and one from work. I asked two engineering professors that taught classes with programming assignments, so while not strictly CS, they were able to speak to my ability to write software. If you don’t have that, you can do well in a few CS classes at a community college and professors are usually happy to write you a rec

@@sam_cant_code Thanks, that's helpful

Thanks! My favorite course was probably Graduate Algorithms and my least favorite Global Entrepreneurship

I hear the job market still isn’t great but slowly improving. Pivoting within your current field is usually easiest, I guess for you that would be EdTech

Here's a link to an official page on preparing for OMSCS: omscs.gatech.edu/preparing-yourself-omscs. Now they have official MOOCs to prep, but I took courses in computer architecture, OOP and web development Edit: I ended up making this video talking about how I prepped for OMSCS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbdgZad8neC8mps.htmlsi=bUmExY4v_vLZPU2n

@@sam_cant_codewhere did you take these courses?

@@CyDETECT OMSCS is online, so I did most of the program at home in California but also did some school work while traveling

Sorry if that was unclear, I meant that taking 1 course a semester costs about $700, so $7k for the whole program (10 courses). It’s cheaper if you take 2 or 3 courses since there’s a flat fee per semester. I went to look at the actual cost, it was $647 for 1 class and $1,187 for 2. It used to be $841 for 1 class but they dropped one of the flat fees. As an example, I did OMSCS in 7 semesters so the total cost was $6,149 (really $647 since both employers covered the cost except for the one semester where I switched jobs)

@@sam_cant_code Oh that makes more sense! Thanks for clearing that up! And congratz on graduating!!

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