I have a friend who, 10 years ago, had a successful career writing Windows drivers for some periphery hardware by a small company. He has a CS degree from an okay university. After the death of a very close family member, he quit his job because he couldn't focus and needed a break. That break turned into 10 years of living his surviving family helping them around the house. In that time he's done some website programming in Typescript and Javascript. Long story short, he wants to make a change and get back in...
I'm not looking for sympathy for him. I'm telling his story to gauge how acceptable it would be to explain his long hiatus, and how prospective employers might feel about it. 10 years is a long time.
Furthermore, I'm getting him set up with HackerRank and Leetcode to work on his interviewing skills early, and I advised him to learn Java and Python as those are the most popular languages, but he's willing to pick up anything that's in demand and willing to pay for online courses. Does anyone have any further advice on something in high demand that he can get back in relatively quickly?
Thank you in advance.
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