You have the right attitude about schooling. I never went to school for this, actually I am a high school dropout and never attended University. I have no degre

You have the right attitude about schooling. I never went to school for this, actually I am a high school dropout and never attended University. I have no degrees, and am happy about that. Instead I now have 16 years of real life work experience (and an additional 4 years of programming for myself). I make it a point to learn constantly - whether it is algorithms, compilers, statistics, etc. I have met plenty of people who have that background and still have no clue what they are doing. Remain passionate about what you are doing - that is what will make you a good programmer.