What is it that you wish to learn? If you're a self-taught programmer who wants to learn (to use an extreme example) bricklaying, then you won't have much use for the standard undergrad CS reading list. Similarly, if you want to be a better programmer, the list will be different to that of the standard undergrad CS reading list. Can you tell us what your goal here is? Do you actually want to do CS, or do you want to…
> do you want to fill in some of the theoretical gaps that might be useful to you as a coder, or do you actually not care so much about the theory and just want to be a better programmer Definitely yes, and yes. I suppose I want to see a few examples of writing better code, see how and why things break when they scale, understand useful principles that I just "worked around" before (ie recursive functions), and then…
Re: Ask HN: Computer science for the self taught programmer
#41I'd go with the above mathematically aligned subjects and possibly add music. It's good practice for keeping lots of little data structures in memory and running them in the correct order to create a greater structure. IBM had, at one point, a proclivity to hire musicians for this, among other reasons.