Oh yeah I think i have 1100 hours in PoE alone, Diablo god if i know. i've been playing diablo since d2 from early 2000s. Nowadays i dont have as much time as i used to so i just pick 1 game play the crap out of it and move on to the next. and when i dont have anytime at all i play one of those games that allows me to play 1 match or 2 before i end my night.(Overwatch, Fortnite)

Yeah school was never good at teaching programming. They need to invent better ways of teaching children programming or it gets boring fast. It's awesome that you were teaching about game design in js. did you use a game engine like Unity3d or was it just pure javascript and some libraries?

Thats honestly how i went for programming as a career too, being able to face a challenge and solve it with code you thought up is fantastic. if anything i suggest www.codefight.com for you to practice your skills on.