How would i get an apprenticeship position in software developement?

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How would i get an apprenticeship position in software developement?

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I never heard of such a thing, although my postdoc in AI sort of worked out that way.  You don't necessarily need a degree in computer science (mine's in organic chemistry), but you ought to have programming skills and the ability to understand or learn at least some of the programming standards and concepts that make for efficient algorithms and heuristics.  These days, a knowledge of web development is also pretty important.

I'm not going to tell you to avoid IT like the plague, but I will tell you to know what you're getting into, and that it's vastly inferior to computer science and is mainly for people who want to do routine programming, not the really interesting projects or research.