<human>: So I got my bachelor's in political science (I know, I know) in December of 2011. I went through the application process to attend law school, and I got into a rather nice law school in my area. I completed the first semester and decided at the end of it that I did not want to be a lawyer, after all. Not even a little bit. In fact I rather hated everything about what I was learning.

I'm now 18k in debt, unemployed, but spending a great deal of my time playing with codeacademy, enrolled in some Coursera computer science courses, and talking to my friends who have mostly found jobs developing apps and coding for major IT firms. They all seem reasonably happy with what they do and everything I've experienced so far in regards to codeacademy suggests that I will enjoy it, too.

Where the advice comes in: Where do I go from here? Do I pursue formal education in computer science? If so: where, how, and when? Should I seek out potential employment in the industry without experience? How do I explain the degree/law school situation to potential employers?

Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?
<bot>: Got a useless degree (poli sci), decided to go in a completely different direction (comp sci). How to start over?