A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science
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#2Might interest some people looking to learn some Computer Science basics. It's a small aggregation of openly auditable university courses.
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#3Not sure on the prerequisites. I have absolutely no discipline and still managed to get my compsci degree!
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#4That’s just the usual memes. Is this about « computer science » ? Then why isn’t there anything logic, algorithms, Turing machines, etc..
Is this « dev »? Then what’s the point of discrete maths?
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#5Not sure on the prerequisites. I have absolutely no discipline and still managed to get my compsci degree!
That probably because you were in a degree program. Discipline is definitely an issue if you just decide to complete a couple dozen courses making up a curriculum from OCW or whatever. Even if you take out elective stuff, especially that not connected to the major, you're almost certainly talking many hundreds of hours to plow through a college major.
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#6> High School Mathematics
Whenever I try to catch up with maths (in Khan Academy and elsewhere), I always end up in an awkward state where I keep recursively researching less and less advanced subjects because of gaps of various sizes in my fundamental knowledge. It's incredibly demotivating.
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#7> High School Mathematics Whenever I try to catch up with maths (in Khan Academy and elsewhere), I always end up in an awkward state where I keep recursively researching less and less advanced subjects because of gaps of various sizes in my fundamental knowledge. It's incredibly demotivating.
Same for me, let me know if you find the solution! I think it's extremely hard to get into this kind of stuff when you basically have to start from 0 meanwhile everyone else has a better foundation than you
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#8> High School Mathematics Whenever I try to catch up with maths (in Khan Academy and elsewhere), I always end up in an awkward state where I keep recursively researching less and less advanced subjects because of gaps of various sizes in my fundamental knowledge. It's incredibly demotivating.
The book that made things click for me was Maths: A Student's Survival Guide by Jenny Olive. Give it a shot, use a calculator for everything. IMO in the age of computers let computers do the calculations and just learn to have intuitions.
Re: A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science
#9> High School Mathematics Whenever I try to catch up with maths (in Khan Academy and elsewhere), I always end up in an awkward state where I keep recursively researching less and less advanced subjects because of gaps of various sizes in my fundamental knowledge. It's incredibly demotivating.
I have the same problem and have still not found a workable solution.
Only one there seems to be is to basically rerun 12 years of math, which is really unpleasant because I know 80% of the work making it unrewarding and slow. I don’t know what I don’t know that is super demotivating, indeed.
Re: A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science
#10Not sure on the prerequisites. I have absolutely no discipline and still managed to get my compsci degree!
That probably because you were in a degree program. Discipline is definitely an issue if you just decide to complete a couple dozen courses making up a curriculum from OCW or whatever. Even if you take out elective stuff, especially that not connected to the major, you're almost certainly talking many hundreds of hours to plow through a college major.
Jokes aside, I agree. University programs do/can provide an almost overbearing amount of structure, and that worked well for me.