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Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online

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Re: Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online

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Post by artificialLimbs »

st1x7 wrote: post #26

Thanks for sharing, this is great. It's also a bit intimidating and overhwelming. There is so much to learn and there is also a danger of just getting through textbooks that cover the same material that you've read before or covering stuff on a surface level without getting any practice with what you've learned. As a data scientist, it feels like anything from mathematics, computer science, statistics, large-scale sy…

Exactly what I'm going through as a junior programmer. I have no idea what to do, and everything is changing so fast I'm not sure what to grab.

Re: Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online

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Post by mapme »

artificialLimbs wrote: post #41
st1x7 wrote: post #26

Thanks for sharing, this is great. It's also a bit intimidating and overhwelming. There is so much to learn and there is also a danger of just getting through textbooks that cover the same material that you've read before or covering stuff on a surface level without getting any practice with what you've learned. As a data scientist, it feels like anything from mathematics, computer science, statistics, large-scale sy…

Exactly what I'm going through as a junior programmer. I have no idea what to do, and everything is changing so fast I'm not sure what to grab.

The fundamentals don’t change fast and are what everything else is built on, so I would start there.

For example, if you don’t have a traditional CS degree, https://teachyourselfcs.com/ is a curated and effective set of books.

If your trying to understand complex systems, I would read Designing Data Intensive Applications, which is perhaps the best and most useful technical book I have ever read, and covers the most important parts of distributed systems. A lot of what’s in the book are fundamental distributed systems, from the 70-80s?/newer things from early 2000s built by BigTechCo

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Post by blewboarwastake »

pron wrote: post #6

By no means a textbook, just a barely-edited book-length anthology of primary sources I put together, but let me plug my own: Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought: A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra

The Bibliography is definitively useful but the editing and commentary is really good too. I'll bookmark it and will keep reading later.

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Post by aronpye »

ipodopt wrote: post #35
aronpye wrote: post #19

I wish these lists were better curated rather than just a dump of links with no commentary.

https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Still doesn’t really explain the contents of any of the linked courses or why you need to take them.

The only decent teach yourself computer science program I have come across is https://teachyourselfcs.com/

Re: Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online

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Post by epilys »

pron wrote: post #6

By no means a textbook, just a barely-edited book-length anthology of primary sources I put together, but let me plug my own: Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought: A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra

Do you have plans on publishing an epub?
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