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I suspect you overestimate the extent to which your programming experience would translate to formal studies. Unless you're some sort of genius (possible of course), you'd be extremely optimistic to embark on a degree hoping to finish it in a couple of months.

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Oh, stop trying to stifle the confidence of others.

It's still a valid criticism. Unless you've had to do random things like write compilers and write/analyze algoritms every day there are going to be lots of things covered in school that most of us just don't do while programming day-to-day.

Add to that the issue that school work does require some amount of time to complete and I wonder how someone could really compress that volume of work into a few months.

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