"College only teaches you theory...You have to learn...on your own." Agreed. My experience was that I got into programming as a kid. By the time I enrolled i

"College only teaches you theory...You have to learn...on your own." Agreed. My experience was that I got into programming as a kid. By the time I enrolled in college, I had written hundreds of thousands of lines of BASIC code and had written a ton of Pascal programs. College enhanced my programming abilities with concepts like big O notation but for the most part did not give me any hard technical skills that were hirable. My first job out of college was programming in Java which I picked up on my own and via an internship.