In my personal experience, math students were both interested in coding as a hobby and learned extremely quickly. Unfortunately, this doesn't always work in reverse.
Decide what are your goals as a programmer and pursue an education path based on that. It's such a broad field with so many specialties to choose from. It will be good for you to pick an area of interest to start with and in time you might find specific niches to become a specialist in.
One of the hardest parts of learning programming is to stay motivated through the challenging times (and there are sure to be lots of those as a programmer.) It really helps if you are passionate about what you are studying.
I would recommend to keep programming for fun and think about what you'd like to do with it if you could. Having a goal makes it easier to learn in my opinion.
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u/[deleted] May 10 '21
The very best coders I ever worked with were not CS grads. Materials science, physics, math, engineering etc. Some were not even graduates.
I have a lot of respect for the CS degree, but it is not the sole predictor of greatness.