Good Path for Computer Science: Social Work to Tech

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I'm also a social worker (MSW, LCSW) and I've been working towards a CS degree at TESU. I highly recommend it. The complete waiver of everything but AOS has been great. I take alternative credits at Coursera and Study.com which is more affordable and transfer them in. This has been great because social work can get really stressful and busy and it allows me to pause for a bit and then pick right back up. Now some of the Study courses aren't great, but you get out what you put in. Some people will fly through them, but if the intent is to learn it's still doable in a reasonable amount of time while actually learning.

I only plan to do the capstone at TESU and pay the waiver fee so I can keep flexibility with classes. My estimated total cost will end up being like $7k. Because she already has a bachelor's she shouldn't need the cornerstone class, btw. I've been using the Wiki to guide my class choices: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...ience_Plan

I've actually slowed down my graduation so I can hopefully do any internship next summer. I'm focusing more on data though as opposed to software so the Intro to SAS, Advanced SAS, and Google Data Coursera certs have been great with learning.