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This is what people have told me when I inquired about this in person.

Thanks for confirming it. And, of course, all of us already know about MOOCs, but knowing someone has taken a course there and it was good, is a decent indication for a beginner like myself.

Your advice also seems to get to the nitty-gritty -- to the point! So this is good! Thanks!

Will add it to the list. Thanks!

I'm 30 years old, and focused on a liberal arts degree, but since I was a kid I've always done basic PHP and JavaScript stuff.

The CS courses I'm interested in taking, such as C/C++ have a math requirement. But I don't just want to do it because they're required. I now have a genuine interest in math maybe because of my life experiences, finding what type of person I am, etc. I have very few friends in the liberal arts, because I'm not really like them. Kinda complicated to explain all of it.

My personality meshes better with people in the sciences. This goes for work-related stuff, as well. It took me 10 years to figure that out after graduating high school. Even though I excelled in all of my classes (graduated in top 5%), I think I was living in my own little world with regard to liberal arts.

I feel like I can never get to fully appreciate mathematics, but at least I will try my best to do what I can when taking the math pre-reqs for CS.

I'm open to receiving any feedback/advice -- the people around me usually find these types of discussions boring, though :)

Email is in the profile. Thanks!

I will email you tonight (my time).

Now that I'm older, I can appreciate educational material directed at children. So, I'm not opposed to taking those courses -- I do not feel above it by any means. Who knows -- it may work as a catapult!

I will try out your site, for sure. Thank you! :)

I had never heard of a Directed Acylcic Graph before. Let me read up on it and will try to do it. What you say makes sense, though.

I want to be able to take advanced CS courses and fulfil the math requirements. However, I am certain I am far from being prepared to take those math courses required to take anything above first-year CS courses.

I know this is going to sound lazy, but a quick Google search indicates it is recommended CS people know how to write proofs. So I guess the answer is yes. However, we are getting into extremely foreign territory for me.

And yes, I am in California. I don't really know how I can be of any help to you, to be honest, though.

Thanks. You're right I haven't taken control of my own learning, which can really be summed up in the question: where do I start?

Part of the problem is I don't even know what I can already do, because I haven't done math in a long time. So part of all this is really my being a little scared of it still.

I will look for algebra resources online and see how I do and use that to see if I need to go further back, stay on that algebra track, or try higher-up math.

In the end, I really am partial to taking a course, because of the structure, as you say. So I just want to see what math I should start at, instead of throwing away money.

Thanks!