Many people (or students) have self studied some topic or subject using resources found online or at a library. The resources include MOOCs, university courses, books, tutorial blogs, etc.
Some of the resources are so good that they bend your mind completely in a good way and you find out new avenues of thought and learning. You fall in love with a subject and pursue further.
I have two favourite courses for programming:
1. How to Code 1 and 2 by Gregor Kiczales on edX. They are based on the book How to Design Programs
2. Brown University's Acclerated Intro to CS course by one of the authors of HtDP: CS19. You can find it here: https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/software.
I have two favorite math books that have helped me understand more math:
1. Introduction to Logic by Alfred Tarski
2. Vector Calculus by Hubbard and Hubbard
What are yours?
The most important learning for me out of this is that people are predictable and how we commit is modeled by how perceptions of rewards are attained. It also inspired me to dive deeper into self learning about behavior and economics, because people do exceptionally irrational things to avoid perceived discomfort.