How I Became a Software Engineer | Quitting College Computer Science

[@omar_mtl]

I dropped out of mechanical engineering due to family emergency, and learned coding by myself. I landed 2 unpaid internship, and the current one is ending this Friday. I hope this helps me land a full time job. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@codeSTACKr]

No CS degree here either... Another great video! Keep it up :)

[@ashwinnarasimhan2729]

Lol at the gatekeepers who think you can't call yourself a software engineer without a degree. So many great engineers are self taught. Thanks for sharing your story!

[@AliSpittelDev]

I so agree! I had a whole reddit thread about me at one point because they said I couldn't call myself a software engineer, so I wanted to be direct here about it :)

[@lukemuga434]

@@AliSpittelDev shows the extremes the brogrammers can go to maintain their fragile egos. To add salt to injury, you're a lady, who in their minds only fits only the position of a submissive girlfriend/wife or whatever else they objectify you to be. I read your post "Nevertheless Ali Coded" on Dev.to and was shocked at how low people can go in this industry. Now I'm hearing about an entire reddit thread being made about you and wondering what the hell is happening. But keep flying the flag high. You go girl 🔥🔥🔥

[@eltebux]

Honestly this industry moves so fast that having a CS degree has minimal impact in the performance of devs, i have a design degree, for a while i thought i was not as prepared as a guy with a CS degree but in reality no, it depends on how you move in your career. And never stop learning.

[@b11webdev]

I can’t agree more with the comments included here. This is a very upfront and honest breakdown of your path from Uni to working as a software dev. More videos would be great!!

[@codu]

No CS degree either and always love hearing these stories. Always good to have perspectives for those new people grinding. ❤️

[@anthonybeckford5608]

i really appreciate the transparency in your story! I enjoy your content

[@AliSpittelDev]

I appreciate that! Thank you so much!

[@FierceAmbition263]

Fullstack Developer here...No CS Degree as well!!! I'm also making Tech videos. I never believed it was possible and i'm an example for others now. Hard work & determination always pay off :)

[@bdougie]

The ring lighting looks great. Also loved hearing your story.

[@AliSpittelDev]

Thank you so much!!!

[@TavetteDarville]

Hi Ali, I think this is a great story. It wasn't what I was expecting based on the title because even though you don't have a CS degree, you took college level CS classes and literally worked as a teacher's aide. However, that doesn't take away from how hard you have had to work to start and grow in your career. My biggest takeaway is to make the most of the opportunities presented to you, don't be afraid to reach out to people, connect, ask for what you want and keep working really hard. Thank you for sharing and always being transparent.

[@AliSpittelDev]

Glad to hear it! I tweaked the name and thumbnail based on this feedback, I wasn't trying to be clickbait-y there were just a few other similar stories to mine with this title so I wanted to group them together!

[@TavetteDarville]

@@AliSpittelDev I totally get it! I think the adjustment suites the video a lot more.

[@TomNook.]

Weed out courses are so toxic. We had this in first year CompSci, but in Java. The first semester the lecturer did everything in notepad, compiling using javac. No linting, intellisense etc. It was chaotic in some of the larger pieces of code. He then fully introduced us to IDE features in the last semester, all the annoyances we found just wiped away. A third of our class dropped out because of that, I do wonder how many of them would have still been in software now were it not for that lecturer.

[@yoshreimi]

Thank you so very much for making this video. It motivates me to continue learning Python as recently saved enough to learn it full time through different sources. This was really valuable. Thank you again

[@kaishajones]

Your story is so impressive Ali 🙏🏾💫✨

[@russellquaicoo3102]

Nice experience. I'm still in the university though, 2nd year. I also thought computer science was about writing code in 0's and 1's before I entered the university to know what real coding was about. I am aspiring to be an ML engineer.

[@olyabozhinov8021]

Awesome story Ali! Love the videos!

[@AliSpittelDev]

Thanks so much!

[@prakash_77]

Great video bug lady. Subscribed :)

[@nikhillokhande7390]

DS & A is a total weed out class, btw shout out to the focusrite scarlett

[@misterjaypeasmith]

I’d love to see some Django content from you. Maybe with a separate front end in React 🙏🏽😅

[@AliSpittelDev]

OOh maybe!! I write mostly serverless backends now to be totally honest. Though still have a huge soft spot for Django!

[@vanessa6236]

This title is cheecky. Like girl u went to college. I'd really wish people would stop clickbaiting. I'm trying to find someone who has not gone to college and just self taught went to bootcamps and became successful as a developer. And what is the age thing with coding.

[@vanessa6236]

9:46. Okay thank you for acknowledging this.

[@AliSpittelDev]

I think this is valid criticism, however, I think it's also helpful for a lot of people to see someone be successful in the industry who struggled a lot at first, quit, and dropped out. I am almost entirely self-taught even though I do have a political science degree and I was first exposed to programming existing in college. The age thing is something a lot of people face unless they've been coding since they were like 7 years old. I was one of the very few people in those classes that was a woman and hadn't been coding for years before the class (and didn't have access to CS in high school). Again, everyone's background is different and I think these videos should be seen as people sharing their stories more than anything else.

[@duanegiroir1497]

Check out TRAVERSY MEDIA he is self taught and has a done of good content on KZbin that is helpful