CS is way more than just programming. I can promise you that if you pursue this path you will learn tons of stuff you had absolutely no idea about. You may not realize how little you know... At my local university the strongest students were writing their own chess engines in C++ in the first half of their first semester. The second year their own ann libraries.
Not saying you shouldn't do this - I think you should because CS is tons of fun - but thinking you can do it without spending time and effort on it is naive. If you have money saved why not take an extended vacation and run through as many CS and math courses as you can?
Not saying you shouldn't do this - I think you should because CS is tons of fun - but thinking you can do it without spending time and effort on it is naive. If you have money saved why not take an extended vacation and run through as many CS and math courses as you can?