What sort of stuff did you learn in your CS course that have proven valuable in your career that you may not have learned otherwise? I asked this question because I don't want to fall off due to not going to university.
The most valuable thing to me in the CS program was really being exposed to things I didn't know existed. It may not be as big an issue today with places like HN and Reddit to push you in unexpected directions, but I really benefited from being introduced to stuff I wouldn't have even thought to look at. Once the introduction was made, I was mostly self-taught because I'd dig into it out of pure interest, but that initial introduction was vital.
I agree. I only did a CS minor (10 courses), but even just doing that exposed me to things that I'd never really been exposed to, like operating systems and numerical computing.
I was self-taught and went to community college to sort of "validate" that I have CS skills (to help get a job). I think there are a lot of things you do in school that you wouldn't otherwise learn/explore. Things that come to mind are binary, assembly language, how sorting algorithms work and big-o notation. Those topics are kind of dry, and something you're not likely to try and learn about unless it's required.
For me those skills aren't incredibly useful in everyday work (I mostly do web development), but I think having that low level understanding does help from time to time, in a hard to measure way. I feel like it sort of gives you a better intuition on certain things, like evaluating new technologies, why you're having performance issues, etc.
Also watching a teacher code, and listening to other people describe their thought process was interesting. I didn't do a lot of pair programming, but if you go to a university where you do that, it would be useful.