Hi V1nce thanks for the well detailed post.
May I ask a question?
If I want to get into programming as a career, do I need a computer science degree? or can an CIS degree work? because I know without advanced maths you can be limited in what you can do. Say I want to get into app development for businesses building .NET aps C# and JAVA etc for what business clients generally want. Offcourse I am not talking big fortune 500 companies I mean regular medium sized businesses. The general services in SQL that your average medium size business requires.
How else can I put it?
http://www.caribbeanjobs.com/Programmer-Job-62566.aspx
^ that is perfect for what I am talking about
Can a IT degree and lots of self learning be suitable for this?