Dropped out after 4 months at Uni when I realised that I will learn absolutely nothing useful for my future career. We were either learning HTML/CSS or coding calculators in C# . At this point I was already writing my own PHP CMSs with huge databases for real life clients. I guess I can only blame my course level and maybe I could go someplace else but it probably wouldn't be so much different.

A month after I dropped out I got my first job as a junior Drupal developer. That was 7 years ago, now I'm a FrontEnd dev in a really great environment and throughout the years no one looked at my grades or even asked for them.

Experience and passion as as valuable if not more as your education.

So you traded C# for PHP...

Oh you poor soul.

But hey, you're right on the passion part, it is really important and I'd say even more than the damn CS degree.

@MrCSharp I wouldn't say I traded anything, I mentioned that I already knew PHP before Uni.

You think you don't need the education? Wait until you're that much advanced in your career that you'll get to do some real next level stuff. Or you encounter other engineers that did get that formal education. One day it'll definitely come in handy. I suggest you get your formal education, it'll really help you become next level, unless you plan to stay front-end dev the rest of your life.

I have a bachelor degree in software engineering and am now, after 20 years working in software development, studying for my master degree. I already applied some things I learned to solve some really tough problems. My knowledge and expertise is quite broad, deep and solid, but I learned a lot of new things and amazingly it really helps. I do believe that one should work for 7-10 years before getting formal education because then you can already develop, know a lot, have quite some experience which will help to get to that next level when applying formal education things in your daily job.

@CodeMasterAlex Yeah I guess, if I wanted to drastically change my role it could be handy BUT I've been coding websites since I was 14 and I love it, it is my passion, it's someting I'm good at and I would like it to stay that way. There is no problem me getting a senior/lead developer role, I wouldn't really want to do anything else. Times change, roles and tools change with it. Not that long ago I was considered as a "Full stack" developer writing wonky PHP code and god awful css. Fast-forward to today and I code in ES6 or any of the great javascript frameworks for the biggest brands in the world, so big that it actually makes me anxious. I don't think that I will need any degree on my career path as I am flexible and keen to learn new technologies. Saying that though I still respect people that are getting it. Everyone is different and I don't think there is like an only one GOOD way of doing things.

@SauceBoss oh please... That shit started a long time ago.

And we all know C# is the best anyways, so no need for arguing 😂😂