I have a friend who got his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and now works as a iPad App developer. I had a boss that got his degree in Nuclear Engineering and went off to found his own online business (he now works as a developer at the company that bought his company). I've worked on code with team members that barely graduated from High School, and they were good coders. Don't about what degree you end up getting, if you want to program teach yourself. If your good at something people will begin to take notice, regardless of what your resume says.
I agree with @greedoshotlast. But I am on the same boat as @throwaway826.
My major was in Philosophy. I've been attempting to go back to school but always ended up not finishing. I was shooting for a CS degree.
I took up courses in the community college with intention to transfer to the university (cost-effective). But, due to personal, job, and family commitments, I couldn't get past that community college level, hadn't completed even the associate degree.
So, I think I am going the teach-yourself-to-code route! My C#/.Net attempt at this was not successful either. This time I am teaching myself to code in Ruby/Rails!
I have a hard time believing that I'll be able to get a job at any reasonably respectable company just by teaching myself certain programming languages. I know exponentially more about system architectures and linux when compared to anyone else at my company, but others who have been at the company longer than I are still called upon when knowledge regarding either of these topics is needed. It just seems like, in this economy, going back to school is the only real way to get ahead.
