So the reason that I'm making this video is that I've got in this question a lot, and I'm also want to mention that I'm in my first year of software engineering at university, and I also have never tried to boot camp, and I currently work part time as a front end Web developer, so I'm by far no expert.

But I do have some insight.

And personally, I've just been thinking about this a lot.

So with that said, Let's get into it.

Okay, so here's how it seems to be.

And also, whenever I say average pay, I mean within the field of software engineering, a degree from university in the computer science related field will take anywhere from 3 to 5 years, and after completing this, the job opportunities, a great and usually the starting salary will be slightly above average.

In most cases, a boot camp will take, on average, three months.

But there's a lot of variation here, and at the end of many of them you can get a job straight away, and the starting salary here would be around average and maybe slightly lower than average.

And with self education I believe that you can study for about 3 to 6 months and then get a job with about, like, average pay or slightly lower than average pay.

Okay, so those are the three main options that you have.

And the way that I think about this is that unless universities free, which it is in Sweden, where I live, then it may be unnecessary to go to university for this, and especially if it's really expensive to go to university.

Personally, I've already completed a bachelor's degree prior to the one that I'm doing right now and combining these two experiences, I would say that all the stuff that you learn in university could probably be knocked out in six months to a year.

Just more effective study by effective studying.

I just mean selecting the topics and courses that seem most relevant because a lot of universities have a lot, Of course, is that aren't super essential.

So therefore, as faras universities go, I would suggest that if it's free and you are under 25 then go for the university and the recent being that usually only need a best shows, really, which is only three years and then once you're done with this, you will be able to get a job, most likely with a starting salary that is above average.

The only reason that I'm saying below 25 is because if you are above 25 that I'm guessing that you're probably itching for a steady paycheck, which means that I would suggest going into self education or boot camp.

And I'll go into how I would choose between those two in just a second if universities not free.

And you have to go into death to get this education than outside, just looking up the average salary in general in your area.

So not just specific to software engineering, basically the reason being that if you assume that the average selling for software engineering ISS slightly higher than the average salary in general, which uses is then you can be pretty safe to assume that if you self educated for six months or so and try to get a job, then your first job will probably be having a starting salary that is close to atleast the average salary in general.

It's also quite likely that the starting salary that you'll get will be a little bit above the average salary in general.

And then you can look at the starting salary that you think you will get when you finish university.

So looking up what the starting salary would be if you finish university, and then you can just compare the difference and see how much greater that difference would be that if you just started to work straight away.

My point is that if you self educate for about six months and get a job, then you're probably not be in the higher end of the average salary for software engineering.

But you'll probably be close to the average, at least, and then I'll have to imagine that if you spend the same amount of time working in this job, you would have studying in the university.

Then you're probably gonna keep learning.

Maur getting better and better, which means that you'll probably be able to ask for races and also maybe ask for promotions and get promoted.

And if you don't get either of those things, at least you'll get experience.

And once you have some experience in one job, basically you probably Roberto apply for maybe a better job with better pay.

And then just keep working your way up and not supposed that you could probably within those three years, work your way up to and above the salary that you would have gotten once you're done with study, which means that if at the end of those three years, then you might be able to get the same pay, or even more than that, if you just spend those three years working, then going into debt for a university degree, it's quite unnecessary, I think.

Software development.

It's one of the few areas where this is actually possible.

So going into debt is not a good idea, in my opinion, especially given that within the same time frame, you're probably better to work your way up to the same pay without university.

Okay, so boot camps versus self education.

My simple answer various that I think there's two cases and the first being the person that knows that they're ableto kind of push themselves to study and able to stick to a plan and also know that they don't mom solving problems on their own.

And then there's a second person which knows that they kind of enjoy learning in the group and enjoy the support that exists in a group and with teachers and all that stuff, and also notes that they might need an extra push toe actually study so self education is free and boot camps.

I'm not free, and I think that one of the main benefits of boot camps is just having people around.

So you have people toe talk to about your problems and teachers to help you with your problems, and then also they have a well structured plan of study in the park with the well structured kind of study is something that I think is incredibly important.

But I also don't think it's a very difficult to replicate on your own basically the way that I would do this.

It's just look up a computer science degree or a software engineering degree and then just go through the curriculum and find the topics and courses that seem most relevant.

Like I said before, there are a lot of courses and topics in a university degree that aren't really relevant, So just pick the ones that seem necessary or essential, then basically just study them in the order that the university would study them because that's probably gonna be a logical progression, because that's probably something that they thought about a lot.

The courses are usually relatively universal, which means that they're taught all over the world and there's a lot of resource is available online based on each specific course.

So I would just use that as my course literature.

If you feel like you're able to go through that entire process and keep yourself on track, then I really don't see a need for a boot camp.

But if you feel like that's a bit too much work and maybe that you would like the support from teachers and other students, then let's just go for a boot camp.

Okay, so that's my advice on dhe.