Affordable community colleges or state univs for online CS courses?

[bjcheung77]

That's correct, generally, the MOOC courses alone are for self-study and not for credit (people can use these for PLA/portfolio credit though).  

However, that being said, I mentioned the MOOCs provided by or in co-operation with a recognized university.  For example, the GT OMSCS you're looking to get into is actually a MOOC program provided in partnership with Udacity.  

Hence my answer to you pointing out to the major 5 players... And this is especially true if you're NOT in the USA, you can get them from partners all over the world, Australia, US, UK, etc.  You need a backup option just in case GT OMSCS doesn't accept you...

Again, coursera, edx, futurelearn, udacity, and upgrad are the 5 I'm referring to, do a search with google about their degree programs available, the majority of them are going to be in CS/IT or Business such as the MBA.  I've written about them several times...