Just do whatever you can to get a programming position (any quality) then leverage that to jump to a good job ASAP. I'm sort of like you, EE bachelors don't like coding that much but the market is much better than EE and things I actually like would be terrible as a career. I was able to interview with a big but outdated software company out of college due to some light python and C programming at an internship (played up a little) and then jumped ship from that place after practicing some algorithms questions to where I am now which is comfier and teaching me a ton of stuff even though it's disorganized. Current plan is to be productive here and grind more coding questions so I can try out the big botnet companies for a few years and see how I like it while I learn how they do shit and make a ton of money that I can use to pursue stuff I'm actually interested in.
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>but plenty of people do it
And they hate it and stop doing it as soon as they can. A shelf stocker is not what you want to model your career after
I'd rather hate my job and make bank than hate it and be poor.
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow et al is a good book for people who can math. I don't have a good machine learning textbook recommendation but you can Google it. I learned DL mainly using the goodfellow book and the deep learning lecture series by nando de frietes available on YouTube. I learned machine learning (a prerequisite) before it using Andrew ng's Stanford (NOT the Coursera one) lecture series on YouTube but frietes also has an ML lecture series available on YouTube. I treated both as actual courses, taking notes and doing the homework sets (available on their websites). I would learn keras (which uses tensor flow as a backend, and lots of examples available online) along side learning deep learning instead of learning Lua torch like frietes does in his course since Lua torch is outdated, hard to install, and no one uses it.
Thanks user.
You don't need passion to earn money. Just learn Javascript. I'm in at 10 and out at 5.
>You don't need passion to earn money.
I wish more people understood this. The things you're truly passionate about become tarnished when it's your job.
Wait wait wait. Just JS, or all this other crap like Angular, node, jQueery, etc?
I hope you mean just good old JS?
Just Javascript, not whole package? (Angular, JQuery etc?
You're probably the type of person who couldn't implement a simple slider from scratch, so have fun.