Hello, I'm iso some suggestions on some online schools that offer computer science degrees.
I have 0 experience with education after highschool and the same goes with my experience in programming.
I have always been very intrigued by the subject and can still say I'm interested in choosing it as a career path.
Eventually I would like to take the knowledge I obtain and apply it to game development, but first I need to grasp the fundamentals of coding and I think school is a good option (as I know this can be self learned online and jobs are available without schooling, a degree couldn't hurt)

if you've always been intrigued by programming, why haven't you already tried it? my advice is first learn some basic programming. spend 2h/day for the next few weeks going over codeacademy or one of the other hands-on-tutorials. for someone in your position, the worst thing you can do is finally start college and drop it because you struggled with something you never tried before.

i know georgia tech has a really cheap online masters, but dunno anything about online bachelors.

https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/prospective-students/faq

Sadly I don't own a system to practice on, as soon as I can sort out my priorities and save for something minimal to use I'll definitely dive in, otherwise it's just been watching online courses and using an interactive python app on my phone

something like codeacademy doesn't require any installations, just a web browser. make the time to visit the local library to use their computer. my local library is open 10am to 8pm during the week and it's open for some hours during the weekends. if you're working 60+h/week so you dont have time for it, school probably isn't the best idea right now.

just fyi, game programming isn't a very realistic goal for a variety of reasons. if you already know that and it's just a dream, that's fine. just didn't want you to go down the rabbit hole with bad expectations.

lynda has online courses for 20$ a month and they can like verify on your linked in profile
/e also are taught by professors in accredited universities or people in huge companies like adobe etc

This post was edited by Morphed on Oct 5 2016 01:51am

i'm having trouble deciding which program i should enroll in,
of the options available which should i choose to relate to what i'm looking for?



is this even the right area of study for me?

HALP I R NEWB

This post was edited by eazyBEEZY on Oct 5 2016 01:43pm

im guessing IT Generalist has fewer programming classes and covers a wider variety of areas. 'multiplatform' probably has the most coding. networking is, well, networking.

try colorado tech university they have a software enginnering program and a specific computer programming program and web development etc

The best choise for you would be taking CS50 course.

It is online Harvard & Yale lectures together with tasks that you would need to do.
Let me just break you the hard truth - it will be hard to pass all the tasks, it might take you 6+months, but after it you will get certificate and most of important, you will get a very nice education.

You will start at lowest level, and go up each week:
- you will learn fundamentals of digital logic (how does computer work)
-you will learn fundamentals in C (i/o, variables, loops, conditions, arrrays , pointers, linked list...)
-on week 5 you will be able to implement binary tree, hash tables, search algorithms in C
-week 6 will cover Network and how does it work
-week 7 and until the end you will learn to program in different web programming tools (html, CSS, php, JavaScript...)
-after all of it you will have final project which, together with certificate, will be most important in getting job in field


It will be a hard way, but after it you will a great knowledge to improve you as a programmer, which is much better than those guys who bought a book "Learn C in 7 days..." .

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x

Good luck