The fast track option is the certificates in my opinion. It was my BS degree that got my foot in the door and my experience that kept me there. I think part of the reason that certificates are going the way of the wind is that anyone who can read a book can get one. This is pretty much the same for a college degree. However, what I learned in my college experience is how to learn. I learned to want to expand my personal knowledge, how to go about doing it in a way that I would learn quickly, correctly, and remember it. While it's the experience you gain along the way that makes you a good technician, programmer, manager. Depending on where you go, colleges will force you to take a class that may have nothing to do with Computer Science but will in the end benefit you greatly, especially if you want to move higher up in a company.
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The fast track option is the certificates in my opinion. It was my BS degree that got my foot in the door and my experience that kept me there. I think part of the reason that certificates are going the way of the wind is that anyone who can read a book can get one. This is pretty much the same for a college degree. However, what I learned in my college experience is how to learn. I learned to want to expand my personal knowledge, how to go about doing it in a way that I would learn quickly, correctly, and remember it. While it's the experience you gain along the way that makes you a good technician, programmer, manager. Depending on where you go, colleges will force you to take a class that may have nothing to do with Computer Science but will in the end benefit you greatly, especially if you want to move higher up in a company.