If you have the discipline to teach yourself front-end engineering in high school, you have the discipline to teach yourself anything in realm of applied comput

If you have the discipline to teach yourself front-end engineering in high school, you have the discipline to teach yourself anything in realm of applied computer science. Github has replaced the college degree in this field, and differentiating yourself from the rest of the competition is pretty easy to do if you stick to a meaningful path of self-improvement. Paying $50k for a college degree in computer science is ludicrous. Most of the people here who are telling you to do so are probably more interested in retaining the value of their own investment, by influencing the next generation to make the same decision. If there's value in having a college degree - your employer will reimburse you for tuition expenses. If they refuse to do so, it's a tacit admission that the value it adds to your output is worthless to them.