Congrats on the job Chris! Love the video, especially how you succinctly break it down + introduce your reflections on the process as well! Looking forward to more!
Hello Chris, I currently have 2 years left to finish med school but I discovered i want to work as a SWE more than working as a doctor (i'm doing some JS course and i'm enjoying it a lot, also I looked a video about an app developed in phyton during a SWE Subject and it's actually interesting for me). Did your Medical degree give you some sort of advantage during your career in Tech? Because i'm thinking about finishing MS and learn coding at the same time, but don't know if it's going to worth all the effort for just working as a programmer then. What would you do in my case?
so yes, some advantage in that I've gotten jobs where they want a SWE/data scientist with medical understanding. But this is still quite a small niche within overall SWE, so if you just want to develop software then medical degree less helpful
Just pick a course and get started. Python is a safe bet. Try somewhere like freecodecamp, codeschool, codeacademy, etc - just pick one and get cracking. Then try to move to personal projects as early as possible (I wrote a blog “every project and what i learnt” which may be helpful)
