[justinhj]

A degree in literature doesn't teach you how to be a best selling author or a get a job writing tv scripts. On the other hand becoming a good a programmer is much more difficult when you don't understand the fundamental inventions upon which everything else is built. You're limited by what you see in front of you in stack overflow answers and blog posts, with no insight into the why's, only the how's. Self taught programmers that progress beyond simple web pages and crud applications will undoubtedly come across a lot of computer science on their journey. Maybe you don't have to study Milton to be the next Stephen King, but your life will be a lot richer for having done so.