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Different things workout for different people. I was overwhelmed by so many ways to do things in Python and everybody teaching their own favourite way of doing things. Similarly, a…

If you have self learned any topic from mathematics either from books or from online courses, can you share a list of them and why do you think they are great? There are such lists…

Can you elaborate a bit more on the reason?

Even beginners can learn to program in a data oriented way from the beginning. Two books that teach this style of programming to beginners are: 1. How to Design Programs - https://…

The book utilises a series of Scheme based teaching languages to teach about how to write functions for increasingly complicated data types. The language levels produce meaningful …

I was actually in the school of thought that this article describes until I read and worked through the book How to Design Programs [0]. The rest is upto you to judge. [0] https://…

The materials may include courses, tutorials, books, etc. The topics can include: 1. Data pre-processing 2. Library specific tutorials (e.g. PyTorch, MxNet, scikit-learn, etc) 3. B…

Link added: https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics

Not my favorite subject to be exact. But Probability really clicked for me after reading Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E.T. Jaynes .

Your favorite language can be anything - Lisp, Python, C, Haskell, etc. Which codebases are the most elegant ones written in your favorite language that new comers to the language …

Keep us posted about the lectures. I don't find a personal website of you. Then I would have bookmarked it. There are so many awesome lectures from other CMU courses like Andy Pavl…

Btw, Brandon, I hope you archive your version of the course materials somewhere as they are really as good as the notes, someplaces, even better. All previous versions of 15-150 ar…

Ah! Thanks for the detailed reply. It is so good to hear from someone who have passionately benefitted from their undergraduate courses and gets to use knowledge from that in real …

Since, you are the instructor for 15-150 this semester and have graduated from CMU as per the slides. I would like to know what you think about similar intro course sequences elsew…

I have observed that no problem seems unsolvable for game developers. You throw a complicated problem at them, they will create a solution (in whatever way) and make the thing work…

Why is this awesome book posted again today? (I have no problem though). Even if one person is benefitted from it, the post is worth it.

How to Design Programs by Felleisen et al. A breath of fresh air among all the trash introductory programming courses/books that teach nothing but syntax of a trendy language with …

Apart from the font, all your questions are answered in the book's introduction. And this is still a work in progress.

This is not a post/rant about dropping out of college. Infact Jeff Dean, Torvalds all went to college/grad school. But what I am specifically talking about is their capabilites as …