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No one can prevent you from learning computer science.

Everything you need is open to you on the Internet. You just need to find he harder and more theoretical stuff (in addition to practical) and make yourself work through it.

Almost all CS papers are open, except for the dratted ACM and many of those can be obtained via a professor's site, etc.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have any guidance in terms of putting a curriculum for yourself together but that too is available to you! Go get 'em.