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Re:Ask HN: Computer science for the self taught programmer by andys627 on Sunday April 01, 2012 @05:34PM (#3785006)
> do you want to fill in some of the theoretical gaps that might be useful to you as a coder, or do you actually not care so much about the theory and just want to be a better programmer

Definitely yes, and yes. I suppose I want to see a few examples of writing better code, see how and why things break when they scale, understand useful principles that I just "worked around" before (ie recursive functions), and then also some primers on other subjects - so for example I studied poli sci, but they made me take anthropology, geography, economics and some other related but not completely aligned fields. What are some examples to complement web dev?

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Re:Ask HN: Computer science for the self taught programmer by mgcross on Sunday April 01, 2012 @11:43PM (#3786182)
Same boat here. I've really only skimmed 'Think Complexity: http://greenteapress.com/complexity/index.html but it looks like a nice, digestible introduction to a broad range of topics. If you want to get more (way more) in-depth, have a look at 'Mathematics for Computer Science': http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring12/mcsfull.pdf
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