I'm passionate about solving problems and making things, especially AI and game development. But due to some bad decisions I ended up dropping two years after high school and could not get into the IITs i.e. the top colleges in India. Ever since I started college and found the sub-par level of CS education here, I have tried to take my education into my own hands. I'm an autodidact by choice and here is the strategy that I have followed for the past one and half years at college:

- MOOC : I have studied all the important CS courses from popular MOOCs like CS50, MIT OCW, etc. I have earned a certification in an AI MOOC taught by the IITs and completed the Machine Learning course from Coursera too.

- Projects : I have done some good projects and open sourced them at https://github.com/AmanDaVinci

- Others : I have worked as a two man team to publish a game on Play Store and we also sell our plugins, tools and assets on Unity3D asset store. I have organized and instructed successful game development workshops as I plan to start a Game Dev club in our college.

Considering the experience and expertise of the HN crowd in the engineering field, what more could I do to be at par with the top students of the world?

1) Should I invest in AI / ML nano degree certificates?

2) Should I work more on real software projects like open source AI and games?

3) Can I do anything else to improve myself?