I’ve had an extremely financially successful career in IT with nothing more than a Boeing $2,700 COBOL programming course in 1982. I’ve worked with people with masters degrees that could not program their way out of a brown paper bag. The singular smatest person in IT I ever worked with had no college. When our mainframe shop was bought out in the mid-1990’s, he learned powerbuilder and became an extremely effective teacher for Sybase.
College is nice, but it is not required except for things like engineering and brain surgery. And if you have a good mirror and hand eye coordination, you can do your own brain surger on yourself. Well, if you get a good manual with pictures you can.
Best Database programmer and app developer I ever met. . .was a college dropout. ENGLISH major. He found Code, and has been raking it in happily ever after. . .
Do you just code, or do you use algorithms and data structures?