[venturebros]

What is it that you want to do exactly? It seems like a lot of people lump "coding" and "programming" into being a Software Engineer or a Software Developer. I am a Front End Web Dev and I can guarantee having a CS degree would be beyond overkill.

[pikseli]

...until your javascript needs an anonymous closure using first class functions as an argument, or some other lispy-schemey scheme

[lumberjack]

You don't need a CS degree to understand closures or functional programming for that matter. Heck, you don't need a CS degree to understand all of CS theory.