Rather than your community college, use these: MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm iTunes U: http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

Formal education isn't necessary, but it's real world helpful to get some education on data structures and algorithms IMO.

Publish everything you can on Github and ask/answer everything you can on StackOverflow. Then use both of those as resume references, and just get a job. :)