Beginner Questions.

[natshar]

Since you are only 19 and have the time you might be better of getting a computer science degree from a local state university. Find a college that accepts them and you could use CLEPs and DSSTs to transfer in most of your gen eds. Or even better, go at CC and use CLEP and DSSTs. If you find the right University you would only need to take 30 credits (one year of full time enrollment) with them and transfer the rest from CC, CLEP and maybe DSST. You could get a brick and morter college degree under the traditional 4 years time frame if you planned right. A college near me accepts 60 credits by exam, with that you could be done in 2 years.

Unless you a set on getting your degree online this is at least worth considering. If you qualified for the Pell Grant and scholarships depending on where you go it wouldn't be too much more expensive, but I think the education would be a lot better. You might have access to more connections who give you jobs/internships and point you in the right direction and help you figure things out. TESU and COSC are designed for working adults who already have careers and want to finish their degrees quickly. They don't even have real professors and if you go the route most people take on this fourm, you are teaching yourself. That is not to say that everyone that goes to these schools falls into this category, or even everyone on this forum falls into this category, but that is who the schools are designed to serve. If you are still figuring your life out you might gain more from completing school on campus at state school. It is all up to you, though if you want to do online school then do it.

Thank you, but I'm truly set on online schooling. 

Rather, I prefer if I just read a book of direct information with various sources on my own and I find it easier to learn. I wouldn't necessarily learn from somebody trying to explain it to me...unless it's one on one maybe and I may actually fall behind from experience. I didn't even listen most of the time to what the teachers were saying or couldn't relax in a group (Very hard to control anxiety at the time where I couldn't be calm and would look anywhere else while playing with one of my school supplies in a group of about 30.) unless it was a lesson where you had to do something, but it's hard to actually process for me no matter the subject if they just verbally taught. 

Only for practical experience would it more helpful just watching another demonstrate. For example during music class to sing a song nothing would come out when I opened my mouth while I was clueless on how to begin. I would have to later ask a schoolmate "Can you first demonstrate?"(I actually hated my first music teacher because she would always make things harder for me when I couldn't keep up with the lessons and it was another student who helped.) or my first interest in piano was just watching someone playing and copying a few simple holiday/t.v show songs they showed me when I came up to ask. For cross-stitch and I couldn't even understand from the book. I could only use the information as a supplement when I saw an older woman doing the design in the book while she talked. Images and models could also work sometimes in a small group with proper teaching. As I remember being 'thrown' into a science class on the chromosomes of the human body when I was twelve at one time and the teacher was very creative to explain while the topic would sometimes be switched to the current project that class was doing with a great atmosphere, but the information stuck.

gotcha. If you are set online then do that.