Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science

• cs-topics

  821 37 0.0

  My personal curriculum covering basic CS topics. This might be useful for self-taught developers... A work in development! This might take a very long time to get finished!

Having finished a CS undergrad and followed the OSSU curriculum for some years I can confidently recommend https://teachyourselfcs.com/ instead. The courses chosen are more focused on capital-C capital-S Computer Science, and the resources are better suited for self-paced self-direction. One should start with https://teachyourselfcs.com/ and refer to OSSU if they find the former lacking in some measure.

Self-teaching computer science is a long and winding road. OSSU seems to favor a completionist approach that most people would do well to avoid. Grok on the fundamentals and quickly specialize, because life is too short to learn computer science in an encyclopedic way.

• computer-science

  1,081 162,733 7.7

  :mortar_board: Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!

  

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• missing-semester

  375 4,694 6.8 CSS

  The Missing Semester of Your CS Education 📚

  

One course from OSSU I personally recommend to add onto Teach Yourself CS is “The Missing Semester of Your CS Education”[1]. For those unfamiliar with the tools needed to work through something like SICP, this course is a godsend.

[1] https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

• vorta

  44 1,865 7.9 Python

  Desktop Backup Client for Borg Backup

  

A bit like me. Got started setting up a webshop for my first startup and had to learn Apache and PHP.

If anyone with similar skills (Python, Docker, Shell) reads this and looks do get started, do check out our Google Summer of Code projects for this year. You'll get paid and can pick any task in this field: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code...

• processing

  456 6,445 0.0 Java

  Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)

  

I recommend taking a look at Processing: https://processing.org

When I was young, generating visual things was my gateway-drug to programming. With all the tooling, frameworks, workflows, concepts, etc. that you have to learn today in order to do even simple things, programming can become pretty overwhelming to someone who is just starting out. Processing is like a sandbox that is simple, but still keeps you close to the metal and provides a fun and liberating environment to grow your skills.

It may not be for everyone, which also depends on what your son is interested in building, but creative/artistic expression through code is something that I believe everyone should experience at some point.

There are many great learning resources for Processing that cover the whole spectrum from very easy stuff to more advanced projects that involve physics simulation, fractals, 3D graphics, etc. I especially recommend the video lectures by Daniel Shiffman, who teaches even advanced topics in a fun and engaging way: https://processing.org/tutorials

• developer-roadmap

  2,111 274,946 9.8 TypeScript

  Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers.

In the same vein, I also recommend https://roadmap.sh

• computer-science-resources

  2 168 6.5

  Сollection of interesting Computer Science resources (by kirillbobyrev)

I've seen this before and there are great courses, but most of them cover the basics.

What I tried to find for myself is a bunch of in-depth courses that cover the areas where I'm not as comfortable. I've started collecting some courses (there were especially many in the COVID era simply because the universities recorded the courses anyway and only needed to upload them), books and papers. I didn't aim to get a comprehensive set of resources covering everything or having some specific features, I simply gathered what I thought is interesting for myself:

https://github.com/kirillbobyrev/computer-science-resources

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