So, after thinking about this a bit, I've decided to give it a try!
The big thing that won me over is I don't have to choose how many classes I will take in a 6 month period. I pay a flat amount for the 6 months - and then can take and finish as many classes as possible. So I could choose to do 3 classes, finish them in a two months, and take another 2. Or take 6 months to do the 2. Whatever it takes.
As I REALLY hope I'll be able to test out of a majority of the programming classes with some basic work (need to review Java), this means I might able to complete this FAST.
So, I'm waiting to hear back on the next step. Something about Readiness Assessment (which will likely be annoying as I haven't had to do even basic algebra in umm..... 20 years? Wow!), and then pick when to start and pay.
Should be interesting to see how this goes!
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Start
So I had a talk with Dave from WGU about enrolling. We've exchanged a few e-mails with my general questions, and he gave me a call this afternoon.
I'm in a odd situation here - I want to get my MBA, but never finished my bachelors. I had about 2.5 years of it, but burned out. Took a year off, started back up again - but then had a great offer for a job programming. I ended up taking it.
While I don't' regret doing that, I'm now stuck having to get the bachelors so I can move on to higher education. I have around 20 years of software dev - everything including just straight writing code, leading teams, leading multiple teams, training people, design, architecture, starting and running a software company, etc.
Most of my past credits move will over to fill the underclass work - so most of this degree will be learning how to program. Something I kinda know how to do.
The upside to all of this is the way WGU works. I could in theory finish this VERY fast, as I just need to, for the most part, take a test to prove I know the subject material. It's all in Java, which is annoying, as I've been doing C++ since the early 90's, and C#/VB.NET the last few years. If it was in either of those I could probably pass most of the straight programming tests cold. :)
Anyway, going to think about it a bit more, see what happens.
I'm in a odd situation here - I want to get my MBA, but never finished my bachelors. I had about 2.5 years of it, but burned out. Took a year off, started back up again - but then had a great offer for a job programming. I ended up taking it.
While I don't' regret doing that, I'm now stuck having to get the bachelors so I can move on to higher education. I have around 20 years of software dev - everything including just straight writing code, leading teams, leading multiple teams, training people, design, architecture, starting and running a software company, etc.
Most of my past credits move will over to fill the underclass work - so most of this degree will be learning how to program. Something I kinda know how to do.
The upside to all of this is the way WGU works. I could in theory finish this VERY fast, as I just need to, for the most part, take a test to prove I know the subject material. It's all in Java, which is annoying, as I've been doing C++ since the early 90's, and C#/VB.NET the last few years. If it was in either of those I could probably pass most of the straight programming tests cold. :)
Anyway, going to think about it a bit more, see what happens.
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