cs-topics VS computer-science

Also I wish the juniors on my team would do this book. It has helped me so much. Just not directly.

Btw, if you enjoyed the book you might like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Randal...

I'd love to have the time to work through it as I think the level of in depth knowledge it provides would be the best thing for me as a programmer.

I found it through:

https://teachyourselfcs.com/

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm following the website https://teachyourselfcs.com/ , which also mentions this course. It looks very good so far.

https://teachyourselfcs.com/ and/or https://csprimer.com/courses/

Basically, prioritize books/textbooks over tutorials/guides/papers until you've mastered the material in undergraduate textbooks.

https://teachyourselfcs.com/

A subset of the resources listed there are probably the most pragmatic for the topics you asked, but you might discover that you're interested in other areas of CS as you slowly work through them. I think it's ok to nibble away at exercises while juggling your family and work obligations.

* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - SICP. If the book doesn't necessarily click right away, doing a subset of the Scheme exercises are still worthwhile.

I never formally studied computer science and didn't feel it held me back as a web developer. I did some easy exercises on LeetCode occasionally and read about data structures and algorithms when I had free time. However, it was never serious, and the lack of consistent practice prevented me from building a strong foundation. But with my current goals, this area has become very important. After some research, I found this set of resources at teachyourselfcs.com, and it seems to be exactly what I need. For practice, I plan to choose challenges from LeetCode or a similar platform.

Yes, the fundamentals don't change, but this blog is just affiliate link farming and the 40 (!) books it recommends includes a lot of non-fundamental rubbish.

Here's a much better list of around 7 books: https://teachyourselfcs.com/.

But a software developer is not a software engineer, and I'll have to work on the side to make up for the holes in the developer cursus. I turned to reddit to look for recommandations, and I'm quite enthusiast with the TeachYourselfCS learning track - which I started along the Java lessons.

HtDP [0], CS50x [1], and whatever strikes your interest from teachyourselfcs [2], in that order.

Also highly recommend the book for nand2Tetris after CS50.

[0] https://htdp.org/2023-8-14/Book/index.html

[1] https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-science/harvard-universit...

[2] https://teachyourselfcs.com/

There are a lot of great self-study resources for computer science. I've seen https://github.com/ossu/computer-science before and thought it looked like a good way to slowly make your way though a typical CS curriculum.

There is a Discord server for the OSSU computer science cirriculum that is pretty active. https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

For a well-rounded CS knowledge you might want to look into OSSU, which is designed to meet the requirements for univerisity CS courses.

There’s also a compiled CS curriculum here: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science.

OP I hate to double comment and be "that guy who learned to code without going to college who MUST he did it the correct way" cause fuck "that guy". He's annoying, and he never shuts up, and I try really hard not to be that guy.... But I wanna provide some extra reasons I feel you should stay away from Code Academy. And as I said before, not because they're bad courses, so let me be that guy just for a brief moment. In addition to random Youtubers straight up having high quality courses that are much more update date, they often have supplemental tutorials on niche things that aren't covered in a "101 course". But even then, maybe the idea of a certificate on your resume appeals to you... Well, turns out there's more "academic" courses online you can do to get more of those things that self-taught dumbasses like me aren't as strong with because we skipped the "academic" part of learning..... If that's what makes Code Academy appealing (which I don't think they even go over much.... but still)... then here's 2 things I'd look at before pulling out your wallet. Here's Harvards entire introduction to Computer Science courses provided for anyone to take for free (you can pay for a certificate, but its straight up $0.00 to take the classes) Heres a github repo for an Open Source University that a ton of devs have curated to give a simulated full degree program If you want to focus hardcore on being a Web Developer and are frustrated by there not being tutorials that show you exactly how to handle every step from "there's no website on my computer" to "holy shit I made a website", then here you go The Odin Project is an Open Source answer to your cries of frustration. It has curriculum paths that do exactly that. The goal is to go from zero programming knowledge to fully employable as a web developer (by skill level at least, obviously you'll need to build stuff and build a resume)

That said, I'm a software developer and I don't see any point in the distinction of calling someone a software or computer engineer based on education (with the exception of electronics engineers that work on hardware, but here I'm talking about software). A BSc or BEng in computer science or software development can give you a headstart but nothing that can't be self taught and in hiring I've been shocked by many postgrad engineers that couldn't answer simple questions and were outdone by self taught engineers. Make no mistake though - education is required (e.g. you're not going to learn data structures and algorithms through osmosis), but it doesn't have to be formalised as a degree.

My plan is to follow the training program that the OSSU (Open Source Society University) provides in order to really delve into the topic and learn more. Check out this link for more info: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science