>"I was something of a PHP hotshot in high school." That's not at all what I mean to imply. I wasn't trying to come across as "I'm cocky because I know a few

>"I was something of a PHP hotshot in high school." That's not at all what I mean to imply. I wasn't trying to come across as "I'm cocky because I know a few things" so much as "I'm depressed because I'm learning even less than what little I learned on my own in highschool" >"We'll teach you Java syntax! This is how you do a variable assignment! Study that for the next week and we'll do complicated stuff like doing two variable assignments!" Exactly. >You're probably a good candidate for a double major in CS and a field which will teach you something useful. This is a good strategy for future employment prospects and, trust me, you can find something interesting and challenging. I did Japanese and it changed my life. I've already started on that route. >Think you know programming? Build stuff. You'll find out how much you have yet to learn. I agree completely with you on this. After doing so, I really do realize my limitations, and I know that there is so much more I have to learn. It's just that to learn anything in any useful depth requires mostly self-study (since school is slowly-paced and bent towards getting you a low-rung C++ job when you graduate), which I enjoy more anyway. But when you realize that, you wonder what the courses are there for.