How competent of a programmer do you have to be to make 50 to 80k (USD)?

How competent of a programmer do you have to be to make 50 to 80k (USD)?
How much do you guys make?

i'm making $200k with just above hello world tier javascript

Generally speaking? Have a degree from a respectable uni + be average *for someone with such a degree*.

Of course you could be fucking incompetent and luck out or have connections, but that probably isn't anywhere near a reliable plan for the average user.

No, you are larping on a fag cartoon board

what are the options as far as degrees?

no i'm not.

i have a script that downloads porn videos and uploads them to site like rapidshare, and make money on membership sales.

making like $800 a day

Literally entry level fresh out of uni is ~60k-70k I would say. Currently just under 200k after 6 years

>How much do you guys make?

Maths, comp.sci, software engineering... something like that. A bachelor's should probably be enough to get you on the hiring list in that price segment.

Certainly not art history. And certainly not from a diploma mill.

Depends, M/F?

If M just go webdev, grow a beard, and bullshit your way into designing for some startup

If F then just XD Koding and enjoy the ez life

ok, and how is job availability?
are you basically guaranteed a job once you get your degree?

guaranteed a 60-70k job*

>If F then just XD Koding and enjoy the ez life
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depends on area, but yes if you are on your shit you should have a job lined up the semester before you graduate. I had an offer signed at the beginning of my graduating semester

gotcha

m bro
why webdev

what was your gpa bro
desu i'm worried that i'm not that competent

around 3.3-3.5 overall
3.0-3.2 compsci only.

>are you basically guaranteed a job once you get your degree?
If you relocate to where they need you in the EU or USA and you have a degree from an university that is respectable - yea, it's close enough to that.

because you can do FCC and if you put in the work, easily build a portfolio and find a gig within a year.

ok

How could I tell whether a uni is respectable?

how tangible is it to learn something like python in your own time, say a year or two of diligent study.
Than lie about having a degree and apply for dev positions? Maybe even forge a degree for extra safety.

Because lets face it, im fucking broke. Living the chef life (which is shit btw) and there is 0 chance of me paying for tuition. And I can't get student loans, because im 22 and they have to have your parents tax history until you are 25 .and both of them are subhumans that probably haven't ever paid taxes.

ok very interesting
I think I might tend towards the degree because it seems safer
but I'll keep this in mind

Don't lie about having a degree, go through a bunch of exercises and save all your shit on github. If you have a portfolio of stuff you've actually done, it'll do way more than "pls hire me I have potential"

Why aren't you already on code academy learning the basics right fucking now if you care so much?

bro op here
I'm 22 as well and my parents are fuckups, one more than the other, so what's this about tax history?
as long as my parents payed their taxes I should be good?

well arma 2 mods aren't much lmao.
But i was thinking about picking up a few books on a language and immersing myself in it.
Maybe doing a few courses on code academy.

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the federal govt wants your parents tax history for the last 5 years i think when you fill out the fafsa forms. Which was a huge problem for me when I was trying to get into college this year, because my mom hasn't had a job in 15 years and my dad has been a construction contractor his whole life, and never paid taxes. So they pretty much told me to find $30,000 or get fukt.

>this was for culinary school btw
>which im not going to do because its a meme

Codecademy is alright for simple syntax or if you're 100% fresh to programming. It would be better worth your time to go through every hackerrank exercise in order and save all of your ORIGINAL solutions to github

> How could I tell whether a uni is respectable?
Ultimately you need to guess or find out what the destination country and potential employers probably think.

Obviously most companies don't only hire from MIT, CMU, Stanford, ETHZ/EPFL, Cambridge, NUS and Tokyo U, they'd never manage to get enough staff (plus these cost more than many jobs need), but you'll have to try and just kinda research if your desired university gives students the necessary credentials to fairly easily get hired even if they weren't the best of their class.

i am you mong

about 98% fresh. I used to make text adventures and puzzles in shit like Qbasic and visual basic when I was a teenager, and i started the python code academy course, but I couldn't even tell you how to write Hello world in python

ok i will look into this, thx for the headsup bro

ok, noted