====== Learn Computer Science ======

[[https://teachyourselfcs.com/|https://teachyourselfcs.com/]]

Study all nine subjects below, in roughly the presented order, using either the suggested textbook or video lecture series, but ideally both. Aim for 100-200 hours of study of each topic, then revisit favorites throughout your career 🚀.

^Subject^Why study?^Book^Videos|
|**[[:programming|Programming]]** |Don’t be the person who “never quite understood” something like recursion.|//[[:sicp|Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs]]// |Brian Harvey’s Berkeley CS 61A|
|**[[:computer_architecture|Computer Architecture]]** |If you don’t have a solid mental model of how a computer actually works, all of your higher-level abstractions will be brittle.|//Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective// |Berkeley CS 61C|
|**[[:leetcode|Algorithms and Data Structures]]** |If you don’t know how to use ubiquitous data structures like stacks, queues, trees, and graphs, you won’t be able to solve challenging problems.|//The Algorithm Design Manual// |Steven Skiena’s lectures|
|**[[https://teachyourselfcs.com/#math|Math for CS]]** |CS is basically a runaway branch of applied math, so learning math will give you a competitive advantage.|//Mathematics for Computer Science// |Tom Leighton’s MIT 6.042J|
|**[[:os|Operating Systems]]** |Most of the code you write is run by an operating system, so you should know how those interact.|//Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces// |Berkeley CS 162|
|**[[:computer_networking|Computer Networking]]** |The Internet turned out to be a big deal: understand how it works to unlock its full potential.|//Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach// |Stanford CS 144|
|**[[https://teachyourselfcs.com/#databases|Databases]]** |Data is at the heart of most significant programs, but few understand how database systems actually work.|//Readings in Database Systems// |Joe Hellerstein’s Berkeley CS 186|
|**[[https://teachyourselfcs.com/#languages|Languages and Compilers]]** |If you understand how languages and compilers actually work, you’ll write better code and learn new languages more easily.|//Crafting Interpreters// |Alex Aiken’s course on edX|
|**[[https://teachyourselfcs.com/#distributed-systems|Distributed Systems]]** |These days, //most// systems are distributed systems.|//Designing Data-Intensive Applications// by Martin Kleppmann|MIT 6.824|