Module 4: Where to go from here

Yes, we'll say that again: congratulations!

• You have come a long way from the first day. Most likely you had not written much code before, but now have hundreds of exercises behind you.

• You have also experienced skill development over time, which requires patience, willingness to persist, and lots of practice.
  Most importantly: you've seen that it's do-able and that it does NOT require any pre-determined aptitude.

• You've also, hopefully, experienced the joy of programming: figuring something out and that special pleasure of getting a program to work.

• And you've gotten a glimpse of how powerful computational tools can be in any discipline.

What you could do next:

• Earlier in the webpage on advising, we explained how you can take your computing skills further. This page includes guidelines for:
  • Transferring or adding CS as a major.
  • Doing a minor in CS.
  • CS courses available online in the summer.

• Through the survey we discovered that many of you have no room in your schedule for additional computing during your degree program. If you nonetheless have developed a taste for programming and want to be the "programming/software" person in your domain, we have a post-graduation option for you:
  • A fully online and asynchronous Gateway-to-CS certificate focused on programming skills (including web development) that you can take at your own pace.
  • An online Master's in Applied Computer Science, if you want to go further.
  Neither program needs any background, and neither features any math at all. Both are focused on practical skills for the workplace.

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