I would love to join! I am self taught working as an SE; while I feel reasonably competent at my job I do still run into concepts that are unfamiliar to me, which I know I likely would've learned sooner if I had taken a more structured learning path. This sounds like a great idea.
Ask HN: I will teach myself computer science in 2018. Who wants to join?
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Re: Ask HN: I will teach myself computer science in 2018. Who wants to join?
#22I would like in on this. Could we create a discord server to use :P
I don't use discord, but Slack, I could keep open all day because I have to do so anyway for work!
Re: Ask HN: I will teach myself computer science in 2018. Who wants to join?
#23Why? What's your goal? In all honesty, you'd be better off just working on a significantly large project that pushes your skills forward and learning as you go.
It appears OP is looking for some solid foundational skills to help them make decisions. I don't see any issues with that.
You could do that, as you suggest, on someone else's dime/risk profile, but they want to bear it themselves. Why not?
Re: Ask HN: I will teach myself computer science in 2018. Who wants to join?
#24Why? What's your goal? In all honesty, you'd be better off just working on a significantly large project that pushes your skills forward and learning as you go.
Good question. I wonder I'd its better to read up on how to be a better coder (code complete etc.) and also learn about architecting systems. None of this is usually taught in CS.
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#25Yes please. Just the motivation I need.
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#26I am interested as well!
Re: Ask HN: I will teach myself computer science in 2018. Who wants to join?
#27Why? What's your goal? In all honesty, you'd be better off just working on a significantly large project that pushes your skills forward and learning as you go.
The thing is, the real world development is not as fun as Computer Science, some parts at least. Think of it as a recreational activity, similarly to reading belletristic or listening to music.
Re: Ask HN: I will teach myself computer science in 2018. Who wants to join?
#28I would evaluate it...add me to your list (see profile for email).
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#29In case anybody sees this comment: I am having a bad brain day today. I clicked OP's link a few days ago, saw a wall of text in a font that's really big on my 1024x768 screen, and never saw the discord link buried near the bottom of the wall of text.
Since nobody copied the discord link to this thread I never realized it existed, so I created a discord server of my own and then spammed the thread with replies pointing to it. I have now deleted all 20 of them.
I've decided /not/ to delete the discord server I made though, because now I realize the "official" discord that was created has over 500 people in it I am most definitely not touching that. That's an overload I know my brain won't deal well with - my upper limit for realtime chat is around 20 or so new chat messages per day.
So here's the invite code to my low-traffic server: https://discord.gg/ffDd8uW
And the moral of this story is, I guess, good web design that works for everyone. Medium is great on new computers... old ones, not so much.
Re: Ask HN: I will teach myself computer science in 2018. Who wants to join?
#30I would evaluate it...add me to your list (see profile for email).
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