Well, I in fact do mind being a skiddy(under your definition of it, anyway)...which is why i've been teaching myself VB6(reading books mostly, as i'm too poor to afford a computer...[poverty sucks], but when I am on a computer, pretty much the only thing I do is teach myself vb...)/some php...

This is what i start in the fall of this year:http://www.pct.edu/catalog/majors/bwd.shtml
And okay, I guess I have to retract my earlier statement and say that you are right, it's not a matter of comparison.

Also, that story just puts lots of questions in my head...

Questions? Such as ?

EDIT: also, there is nothing they can teach you in college (technology related at least) that you can't find with a Google search. MIT makes that even easier with OpenCourseWare. But... if for some reason you still need some fancy piece of paper saying you 'know' how to program and that you 'know' how to set up a IPv6 network... then I guess college is something you need.

I was under the impression going to college for it would be the easiest way to actually get a job...a lot of good jobs require you to have b.s. degrees and such, but if by thinking this i am living in ignorance, enlighten me as to a better course of action

And just noob questions such as:
I dont know much about programming yet, so im not quite sure how this works...but in order to make an addon for something...or to mod it...dont you need to be able to ADD to their code? meaning you would have to use the same var's and such?(That was my original assumption...[I know this is not true, what i am asking, is how do you do it then?])

You dont have to have there code to build addon's, you can build addon's with the API if they release it.

I dun really get that So im gonna go use to google to figure it the hell out...

i beleive im lower then a script kiddie but i decided to fuck it. ill just stick to skateboarding and guitar

The program I modified is called Lybniz. It does what I mentioned earlier, and it's coded in Python. The my addition was really nothing more than copy and pasting a method used already in the program to another spot and renaming it. (used to be 3 instances of this method, now there are 4 in my copy). The only reason I was allowed to do that, or even able to, was the fact that the program was Open Source (Google for that if you don't know what it is, the explanation is too long to fit in one forum thread).

As for the education thing.

The only field I can think of, other than automotive / construction work perhaps, that really doesn't `need` a degree is programming. Colleges offer courses in programming, sure, but you don't need to take it to survive in the real world.

Anything you can learn in a college classroom you can learn just as easily by yourself at home, for free.
One of the best resources I can give you is OpenCourseWare @ MIT.

@blindskater2846 - Even skaters and guitar players can code...

Haha, I know exactly what open source is, im not that ignorant

And thx for the link to that ishkur, i might do that instead, and then just switch my major to networking/security emphasis...

Hmmmmz, Im gonna hack someones myspace for no reason at all...

and yeh mass i agree i say we give it to pie...(is he still here?)