I dropped out of college and landed a job that's well over 50k in salary. It really depends on your determination and work ethic.

I feel that the labels should go away. "Beginner", intermediate, etc..

I also feel that we shouldn't be strict on how questions are asked. As long as they're relevant to programming and they have a good intent, then the post should be considered valid discussion.. I mean, programming is kind of a generalized "programming" area so this really could include anything. And if people do come in here with questions, being nice and pointing them to learnprogramming(without being mean) will also win more members here. Friendly community is a happy community.

The thing I hated about Reddit was that some of these communities are too elitist for their own good. I had to leave /r/linux because people kept posting threads about distro-related topics or asking questions, and members of that community kept lynching the OPs who would do this.