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Re:What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn... by silentbicycle on Friday December 17, 2010 @10:16AM (#2016426)
This is excellent advice. If you have a hard time following a thesis, look for introductory stuff in the bibliography.

CiteSeer (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/) is an excellent place to find theses, research papers, etc., and it has local PDF / PS caches for many of them. Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) also works, though many results will be behind academic paywalls (e.g. the ACM) - the "all X versions" link will often have alternative links, such as faculty pages, including PDFs / PSs.

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Re:What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn... by eagleal on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:26PM (#2016900)
Re paywalls: that's why I use also http://academic.research.microsoft.com/. For some papers it has a PDF link on the bottom of the page. As a personal preference, I like it more than Scholar (scholar is more full-text search driven, while academic is more filtered).
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