Hey guise.
So I live near Everett,WA and I wanna start on getting my Bachelors in Computer Science. I wanna go to a community college first since I'm not exactly rich enough to start off at a University. Which would you guys recommend I go to?
Programming is hard. Programming video games is really hard.
We can tell already that you don't know what it takes to be programmer. Programming requires research and it shitton of it. In college you'll learn a few things, you'll have a professor hold your hand through the concept of a for-loop, etc. Then you'll go out into the real world and if you manage to find a shitty job you'll learn quick that you don't know shit and they'll wonder why they hired you. A real company will put you through a rigorous interview process to prove to you and themselves that you aren't actually a programmer.
I work as a programmer. I can program, but what I don't know can fill a warehouse. I spend hours of my day reading references and documentation. I Google shit constantly. I read responses to questions other have asked on forums and mailing lists, but I've never had to ask myself because I know how to research and find the answers.
You, on the other hand, come here to /prog/, essentially a parody of a programming forum, and ask us the best community college in your area. If you don't know how to Google or where to look for information then just fucking forget about programming.