Pursuing dreams

[Anaximander]

Well these days it's all about certificates. To go to the right University, you need to have gone to the right school beforehand and so on and so forth. Career planning starts in grade school, it seems.

If you truly believe coding is your calling, and you have a knack for it, then invest yourself in it. Choose courses or schools that will make entry to the place you eventually want to study coding at easier.

While learning on your own is great (and highly needed if you want to excel in any field), you need to be able to field certificates and degrees to get jobs, and the only way to get those is through school, so always keep your focus on that.

If you already know which school you eventually want to be at, you can either check their requirements or simply ask them how other students did it or what choices you can make to improve your chances. Don't know your country, but a lot of these institutions are private or semi-private and will happily give out any advice they can to get new "customers" a few years down the line.

Also if you aren't motivated for coding, perhaps just keep your options open and try do something with a broadness to it, if possible.

Good luck with it.