A common theme here is that computer science doesn't teach you to be a programmer. You learn to be a programmer through practice and experience. Also, learnin

A common theme here is that computer science doesn't teach you to be a programmer. You learn to be a programmer through practice and experience. Also, learning a scripting language for web development is relatively easy. Rather than spend time in class, take some time to go to a coding cave and learn the basics of one of the popular scripting languages. Take some time to practice every day. Build some applications. Read Hacker News to see what people have answered for similar questions. Personally, I'm not sure this is the best route to go. Bootstrapping by learning web development is fine, but keep in mind there are still more roles that you may not be able to fill. For example, people who spend most of their days writing code generally aren't great designers. Designers who can make things pretty may not be the best user interface people. A great development team still needs people who can make sales and know how to run a business well. So, you could spend a lot of time learning to be a coder and still have big gaps to fill depending on what you are building.