You don't have to go to college to be an American success story. In Roadmap to Software Developer, a part of the $uccess Without College book series by Christine Axsmith, see how to be a success without going to college by taking advantage of free training and a career that will not be replaced by computers or robots. Roadmap to Software Developer is the distillation of dozens of interviews with software developers and software company owners all over the United States, including Silicon Valley. Christine Axsmith has done the research for you and organized it into a step-by-step roadmap. There are many media reports about success without college statistics, and many of them will tell you that the income a person earns is dramatically increased with a college degree. That was the old days. Now, when calculating whether college is a good ""investment,"" you need to include the cost of student loans. Buy the book.