Outlier : Associate (GGU) or Credit Course (Uni Pittsburgh)

[dfrecore]

Exactly, what dfrecore said. Assuming you're starting from complete scratch and want to go to a somewhat competitive IT/BS degree down the road but don't know which, you'd be better served starting out with ASU Universal Learner courses. They're transcripted exactly the same as on campus, RA courses, they're cheaper than GGU/Outlier, their program is more established, school reputation is much better in the tech space, and you have more control over your grades and finances. For example, if you're trying to maintain a high GPA to maximize your chances of getting into a competitive program, you can just choose to only transcript courses where you achieve an A, and you have up to a year to decide, in case finances are an issue. After a certain amount of completed courses(with a certain GPA) you'd be eligible for admissions to ASU in case you didn't get into another school. They have way more course options and will continue to for the foreseeable future. You can accelerate a little easier since some classes are self paced, you can sign up for as many as you want since you can always "drop" any that are too much work or too hard without any financial or GPA repurcussions.

Also, there's nothing stopping you from taking any other courses through outlier that ASU doesn't offer like calc 2 and CS 2 once they're available at outlier.

^^^100%

An actual AA in Computer studies gets you virtually nothing.  You're much better off just taking courses that will easily transfer somewhere else, like the GE courses at ASU, for less than the Outlier courses cost.