[skwosh]

I think the most important skills you can learn as a programmer are the fundamentals, including control (continuations, generators, etc), data patterns/structures (template method, functors, etc), and systems (distributed, databases, etc). This requires study, and University is a great place for that, not only for the courseware, but for the available resources and community as well. Look at it as more of a vehicle for what you want to learn, rather than a series of trials you have to work through.

The fundamentals make it possible to learn new frameworks, libraries, idioms, etc very quickly. And being able to draw on solutions across computer science gives you a huge advantage in problem solving for the real world.

But if you just want to be an Angular or React hack you'll definitely have some success working through tutorials, vlogs, etc. But ultimately I think your value will be limited (by comparison).