Like other people have said, try programming in your spare time. There are a lot of great sites lube codecademy and udacity that have great introductions into s

Like other people have said, try programming in your spare time. There are a lot of great sites lube codecademy and udacity that have great introductions into software development. I don't regret going to school for Computer Science,I learned a lot of theory and algorithms that would have taken a lot more time on my own, but I learned a lot about good software practices from researching on my own. The mythical man month and code complete are excellent software best practice books as well