I tried learning programming on my own after having a career crisis during my second year in hotel management school, before switching to the Faculty of Mathematics where I currently study CS. It's not that I couldn't learn to code by myself, but it was rather that I felt lost in the sea of information. I'm still lost when it comes to all the new tech, frameworks, etc. but at least I feel like I'm building a foundation upon which I can branch out.
This, I think, is the best thing about college - it gives you a starting point. It might not teach you the bleeding, cutting edge of tech. But it will give you an overview of the field, of the things that have been perfected waaay back in the 70s (or before, even). You'll understand char encoding, memory, P-NP, algorithms (and if you are lucky some math behind it all). And that can be invaluable and spare loads of pain afterwards I think.
Again, I'm not saying you can't get that and much more by yourself (and I won't even begin to compare the ROI and value of it because where I live school is virtually free), but I think that for a lot of people the guidance is very much worth it.
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I tried learning programming on my own after having a career crisis during my second year in hotel management school, before switching to the Faculty of Mathematics where I currently study CS. It's not that I couldn't learn to code by myself, but it was rather that I felt lost in the sea of information. I'm still lost when it comes to all the new tech, frameworks, etc. but at least I feel like I'm building a foundation upon which I can branch out.
This, I think, is the best thing about college - it gives you a starting point. It might not teach you the bleeding, cutting edge of tech. But it will give you an overview of the field, of the things that have been perfected waaay back in the 70s (or before, even). You'll understand char encoding, memory, P-NP, algorithms (and if you are lucky some math behind it all). And that can be invaluable and spare loads of pain afterwards I think.
Again, I'm not saying you can't get that and much more by yourself (and I won't even begin to compare the ROI and value of it because where I live school is virtually free), but I think that for a lot of people the guidance is very much worth it.