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by senekerim 3914 days ago
> There is virtually nothing in this field that I feel I couldn't learn given books and free time

Nah, you just don't know what you don't know. There are subjects that are hard to pick up outside of a real course with an instructor, peers, projects, etc. Some areas of CS depend on graduate level math and would be very tough to pick up on your own.