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Thinking of career change to software development
I'm currently administering applications and unix OS.
Have no IT degree, learned on the job over last 6-7 years.
Have good shell scripting skills, basic perl, know some apache, mysql, sql etc.
I enjoy scripting, setting up scripts to use in conjunction with databases and apache etc. I think this is the type of area I want to move to next.
Long term, I want to move to software development and I am looking on how I should approach this in the next 6-12 months.
I dont have massive amount of cash stored away to go to night college for an IT degree, I certainly dont want to waste money on a degree that wont be beneficial to me long term. Have some questions if anyone can give advice...
1. Is obtaining IT degree worth the large investment versus individual courses and experience?
I would have done many 5 day courses over the year in shell scripting, oracle, solaris, unix administration, linux along with many application specific courses and I have worked in a support team for over 6 years
Would working towards degree be better than looking for some more 5-10 day courses that focus on software development and accreditation from these courses ?
2. Any particular areas of software development that you would recommend?
ie. Perl, C++, web, html, php etc (maybe many others that I dont even know of)
Any advice at all is appreciated.