[kasey_junk]

I personally have and greatly appreciate my CS degree. I don't know if anyone else on my team has a CS degree and I largely don't care. It is not a requirement to do the job of software developer and lots of great software developers do not have CS degrees.

That said, most of the really good software developers I know who do not have a CS degree, at some point in there career wished they did. Whether those wishes are worth the investment is hard to say.

My biggest question is why not get a CS degree? If it is a question of resource allocation, then I completely understand. If it is a question of lack of interest, that would be a red flag to me, either of the institution you are studying at or of your own motivations. But that could just be my bias because I found CS fascinating.

[monroepe]

I agree with your "Why not?" point. If you are already in college and plan to do 4 years, you might as well get a cs degree. For me it was too late to switch majors when I found out how much I loved programming. And it really wasn't worth it to do a 5th year. But I did take as many courses as I could before I graduated.

[lloyd-christmas]

"why not" comes down to time. There are things I enjoy more than programming. Most of these things I know I wouldn't be successful enough at in a professional sense. I might as well spend that magical time in college where nothing actually matters to pursue some other passions.

[kasey_junk]

Nothing wrong with that reasoning at all. That said, studying both should be an option.

And you might consider those other things as a profession anyway. The magical time after college lasts a lot longer and being stuck doing something you don't like sounds terrible.