I was in a similar situation, except that I saw the need to get a degree so I could get past the HR checklist. I was able to do it in four years while working f

I was in a similar situation, except that I saw the need to get a degree so I could get past the HR checklist. I was able to do it in four years while working full time and managed to leave college with a whopping $1500 in debt. I think it was worth it for me, because it opened some career doors that would have remained shut, and I learned some things that my self-education had skipped. On the flip side, I don't require a degree when hiring developers. It's nice to have, but to be quite frank most developers that didn't learn to code before they started college are generally (there are exceptions) not the type of people we hire. I'm convinced that if you were to drop one of my people on a desert island, they'd build a computer from scratch and be programming again in 6 months. It's just what they love to do, and that's what we look for.