IMO college is there to provide you a well rounded education and opportunities to mix across your own social boundaries in education. I changed majors 3x and en

IMO college is there to provide you a well rounded education and opportunities to mix across your own social boundaries in education. I changed majors 3x and ended up with 3 different degrees and an ungodly amount of just for fun learning hours (so many my University said no more, which was irritating). The background in computer technology from a university level is the "why" behind what you're implementing. Not the "how" you implement it. The hands on exercises are more to apply what you've learned than to give you skill training like a technical college. I've worked with 1000s of developers over my career. The more knowledge you have, the more well rounded you'll be. This tends to lend itself to better developers in my experience. Where self taught is fantastic, but typically those coworkers (not all but most) tend to be pigeon holed into technologies instead of concepts. Developers could learn a lot about business too, accounting, finance, marketing, etc. I loved college and feel it really prepared me for figuring out my way in the world, much more so than simply reading Programming in C.