Should I go back to university?
rsayers: I'm in a bit of an opposite situation,  I've been doing web development since high school (i'm 27 now), and am just now going to college for the first time.  For a degree in religion of all things.That said,  I would never have gone to school for anything related to computers.  I'm still not sure if I plan to continue doing development or go into something else completely,  but I'm fairly certain that I could pick up more useful knowledge outside of school.  Experience is huge,  and at 3.5 years you are about at that level where it doesn't matter if you have a degree or not to many employers.   I've worked with many coders with formal degrees, did well in college, but simply fell flat when confronted with a professional development environment.  The best programmer I know personally has also never stepped foot in a college class room.So my advice would be to stay away from formal education and keep coding.  Do side projects when you can,  You would be shocked how a weekend of toying with a new programming language will change the way you think of things and help your 9-5 programming.