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What are some resources to help self-taught developers learn CS theory?

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Re: What are some resources to help self-taught developers learn CS theory?

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Knuth his self offers the mathematics as something that is not for all readers. There are also the 40+ rated exercises and the historical accounts. In volume 4a there are even 40+ rated exercises entailing finding the errors in historical approaches to combinatorics. Not that that’s anything I am doing. But I just pleasurably whiled away a couple of hours reading about satisfyability and Horne and Krom clauses and Bo…

Once again you have not provided any messy details that matter in a big way and cannot be found in other books on the topic.

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Re: What are some resources to help self-taught developers learn CS theory?

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Knuth his self offers the mathematics as something that is not for all readers. There are also the 40+ rated exercises and the historical accounts. In volume 4a there are even 40+ rated exercises entailing finding the errors in historical approaches to combinatorics. Not that that’s anything I am doing. But I just pleasurably whiled away a couple of hours reading about satisfyability and Horne and Krom clauses and Bo…

Once again you have not provided any messy details that matter in a big way and cannot be found in other books on the topic.

You are right.

Re: What are some resources to help self-taught developers learn CS theory?

#24
Have you checked out https://teachyourselfcs.com

My personal belief if that there really are no rules to how you go about learning a given subject. If reading isn't your preferred method of learning, find an alternative source, on the same subject, in your medium of choice.

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