>Well, you knew this sort of stuff would happen when you made your choices earlier in life, didn't you?
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>Having said that, very few of the best Fox developers I've ever met have degrees in computing. Most have degrees in something or other, however.
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>I recommend that you inventory your formative investment. For example, list all the related magazines to which you subscribe, and the year the subscription started. List all the related books you've bought and read and have at hand. List all the related non-college training you've done and the related conferences you've attended. List all the related software you own and know. Also, list all the contemporary and useful computing resources you own at home.
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>If that makes a short list then you have absolutely no right to complain. If it's a substantial list, then you have ammo to dismiss the denigration.

I was expecting that in the end you'll say "now if all of it costs at least double than what you would have paid for the rest of the courses...".
Back in the eighties I knew some people who stopped buying computing books and magazines because they cost them one PC every 15 months...

Anyway, you're right. If there's ammo enough. OTOH, I've seen people (not implying that our friend is one of them) who tend to say that a college degree is nothing much. The usual answer here was "if it's nothing much, then go for it yourself". Well, it was back in the communist years when we paid no particular scholarship (it was taxpayers money, want it or not).