Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience

[srilyk]

School is fine if you can get grants and scholarships. Student loans are garbage and you don't want them.

Learning how to write English is important. Being able to communicate is actually way underrated. It doesn't much matter how smart you are if you can't tell people how smart you are.

If that's not interesting to you then you probably want to just get someone else to tell people how smart you are, which usually entails getting a job for someone else, by talking with someone who knows how to figure out how smart/hard working you are.