I recommend community college for now. It's cheap, easy, you'll be ahead of everyone in the class, yes, but you'll learn that there are a lot of things you pro

I recommend community college for now. It's cheap, easy, you'll be ahead of everyone in the class, yes, but you'll learn that there are a lot of things you probably don't know about yet. Notice I didn't say you'll learn them :-), that will be up to you, but for instance, you'll be exposed to ideas and concepts you haven't encountered in your hobby programming. Once you're in school, apply Google Summer of Code. Working on an Open Source project in a team is invaluable. I also learned to program from doing hobby projects, but writing real code that others use and look at is a whole different world. I regret I waited till I was done with my college years before I started getting into Open Source development. Good code you can show people and contributions are invaluable both to learning, your resume, and getting scholarships to a four year Uni when you decide it's time to transfer (if). Good luck, keep coding!