

The Internet has really changed all of those things, you can network pretty easily these days without a class ring, and there are lots of ways to earn accredited diplomas online.

Lastly, if you go to the right school you can meet people that might be useful to know in the future for different reasons. The second is you can get a piece of paper to frame that impresses most people, especially those that want to hire you but can’t determine if you know what you are talking about or not. One is you might learn something - although we’ve found that isn’t always a given, surprisingly. If you dig down, there are really a few potential benefits from going to college. Of course, you can always pick a track from one school, but it was interesting to see what and contributors thought would be a good foundation. We found it interesting because there are so many resources available it can be hard to pick and choose. The “Open Source Society University” has a list of resources to use if you want to teach yourself computer science for free. We ran across something interesting on GitHub of all places.
