You certainly don't need a degree if you can show you have good skills. One thing to be careful of though - you say you've struggled with maths, and maths is ve

You certainly don't need a degree if you can show you have good skills. One thing to be careful of though - you say you've struggled with maths, and maths is very important for a lot of programming. It definitely depends what you're doing, and for some cases it's less important, but I definitely wouldn't neglect maths totally in favour of programming.