[kevinaloys]

I am a current CS student and everything I know is self taught.

[leetrout]

This. I have a degree in digital media- and I studied computer animation. And what I really learned? How to teach myself.

[daven11]

That was what a degree was for in the old days - it was to teach you how to learn. There are other paths nowadays I suppose, but a degree is a tick from an institution (who are experts in learning) that you can learn something and presumably if you've done this you can learn other stuff.