My experience at community college
Community colleges are drastically under-rated I think. We&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;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.<p>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&#x27;t that much enlightenment that can be packed into &quot;the syntax of if statements.&quot;