Can I get some help with school

[CapnAwesome]

Having a degree probably matters less in computer science than any other field. Also if you have an interest, it's probably one of the things that you can teach yourself far easier then say, biology or chemistry. You just start programming.

Yes, for the bottom level jobs hacking code.

Not satisfied with that. I easily could teach myself any language. It's not the languages that require the higher education. It's the career specific stuff. I wouldn't have been able to teach myself discrete/advanced data structures. Much of the IS stuff is fucking heavy.

Dude, there are lots of high level programmers without degrees and I know lots of shitty programmers with CS degrees who have to do bullshit jobs to get by. I'm very familiar with the programming world. No need to be a dick or so dismissive to try to make your point. I think you maybe have a need to defend you going to college, but here is a good discussion about the pros and cons of getting a CS degree from people who work in computer science departments.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-better-to-go...n-your-own

interesting quote from a Dartmouth CS professor:

Many of the best programmers I know did not get CS degrees.  Some of them did not get degrees at all.  They are all smart, they learn quickly, and while they certainly know a lot about programming, they also know a lot about other things.  They can see the connections between what they know and what they want to do, and they can see the holes, too.  They are creative, they are disciplined, and they can focus on both the details and the big picture.  And one more thing that should not be underestimated: they are good communicators.