makufiru

Having never done well in college, I did not complete my degree when I was there.

I'm curious about the best way that other people have found to learn theory or ideas that have made them way better programmers. Especially things they have done on their own time, or at least outside of college.

I've built complex systems and user interfaces, but I couldn't tell you about quick-sort algorithms, or sieves, or the best way to build a fibonacci sequence; I wonder if my programming is objectively worse because of it.

I'm a 22 year old software developer with nearly 2 years of experience in full-stack software development. I'm pretty proficient in both frontend and backend technologies, and have built full web systems through to completion that are in production use today.

I have a lot of free time. I'm young and single with no interest in relationships right now. I'm looking for a way to make large amounts of money very quickly, and I need some ideas here.

Note: I do make pretty good money already, but my expenses/standard of living are also pretty high. :/

TL;DR : What are some good or creative ways to make a decent amount of money ($5k+) in a short amount of time? (1-3 months)

So I'm currently a full stack javascript developer. I'd like to learn a new/modern language (Go, Clojure, etc) and also tinker with some game development in the process. What language with that criteria has the best libraries or would lend itself best to game dev?