Ask HN: What material would you suggest go in a DIY CS education?

Posted by pandaexpress on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:54PM
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I'm 18 and taking a gap year to work as a mobile developer. I don't know if I'll go back to school afterwards, and I'm wondering what topics I'd need to cover to have the equivalent of a undergrad CS education?

Suggestions for books on topics from algorithms to discrete mathematics are appreciated.

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Re:Ask HN: What material would you suggest go in a DIY CS ed... by Turing_Machine on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @03:12PM (#4966973)

Algorithms: likely either Cormen, Leiserson et al or Sedgewick

Operating systems: either Silberschatz, et al or Tanenbaum

Compilers: Aho, et al

Programming Languages: Friedman

Theory of computation: Hopcroft, et al

Graphics: Foley, et al

Artificial Intelligence: Russel and Norvig

General: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

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Re:Ask HN: What material would you suggest go in a DIY CS ed... by csense on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @05:02PM (#4967238)

An Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Sipser is excellent for theoretical CS.

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Re:Ask HN: What material would you suggest go in a DIY CS ed... by ekm2 on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @03:19PM (#4966995)

There is a nice list here

http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/

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