Dems need to get their shit together and repeal the cap on the number of members the house can have . The democrats wouldn ' t have this issue if California house members didn ' t have to represent 10 times the amount of a representative from Wyoming . <| sep |> Thanks for your response and Happy Thanksgiving ! I tend to agree . Would you say my best course of action would be to enroll in some CS courses at my local university and do really well in them ? Would a Udacity nano degree prove anything ? I ' m not really sure the best course of action to get over the hump and show them that I can be a successful student . PS I ' ve done a great deal of coding , and I feel comfortable with basic algorithms and data structures