[QUOTE=proboardslol;49129335]What I'm saying is that depending on your professor, you're likely to not learn anything. I'm saying you have to teach yourself everything. This was my experience[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but if you're going to college/university you are going to have a bad professor at one point or another, there's almost no avoiding it.
ratemyprofessor.com has made it easier though.
[QUOTE=Chocolate.;49129320]Go to college man.
You'll learn a lot more than you think and the sad fact is that companies won't want to hire you unless you have that piece of paper that says you've graduated.[/QUOTE]
Who wants to slave away to make someone else rich?
I'm doing the same thing myself, actually.
Degrees are becoming more and more worthless and debt is becoming scarier and scarier. When it comes to computer science related fields, I think there are alternative and simply better routes for people to travel.
[QUOTE=pdp;49132196]Who wants to slave away to make someone else rich?[/QUOTE]
Considering self-employment is only 6-8% of all jobs, a lot of people. You don't get benefits or a secured, steady paycheck when you're self-employed. Surprisingly, financial security actually matters to a lot of people.
College isn't a bad idea. If you really hate college that much, join the military.
Or don't do either. It will turn out great, trust me..
[QUOTE=Svinnik;49127287]Work on programming and keeping your grades high. From there, you can go to a good college.[/QUOTE]
Exactly.
IMO, college is all about how well you can keep up.
How well you can end high school and how well you can keep up those grades until you finish college. It ends up being an endurance race, if you manage to keep up the grades.
And while college nowadays is a tough choice here and there for whatever reasons, its still better to have it and not need it right off the bat, than to need it and not have it.
[QUOTE=CGHippo;49127263]I've been coding since I was 11. I'm not to bad. I've been learning PHP, Lua, and some HTML. I'm 15 atm.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like you know your stuff then, so start off with some freelancing.
Go to college, it's nessecary (especially a high math level) and earn some money on the side making websites and scripts.
Thanks for all the help guys. Much love
If you decide to go down the programming path, be sure to put effort into learning standards, good practices and what not for coding. My friend's father runs a software engineering firm and he said that the amount of people who have a degree and don't know how to code properly is surprising. Apparently their code is so bad that even with the potential added manpower, it wasn't worth hiring them.
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