Published: 2020-11-12 07:41
"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."
Eric Raymond
He is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, currently in print as The New Hacker's Dictionary.
The big idea here is that if don't want to or can't go to college that's ok.
The skill set is built in writing code not knowing every single theory of computer science.
Just because you may not go to college does not mean you are doomed.
Keep practicing, keep reading other people's code, and don't give up.
Don't spend too much time learning deep concepts of computer science before your first job.
Focus on being able to code and prove you can do the job.