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I never knew anything about programming before I took introductory programming class in my first semester of freshmen year.
As a ME student I had to teach myself without taking CS classes during semester so I simply went through all the lecture notes on Data structures, OOP, and I also did assignments that were handed out during semester. I also did some class projects in standford (i.e. Pintos)
Aside from those 'academic programming', I got into hacking club in my school, where I learned linux, python, unix api programming, and a general sense of how to teach myself by googling. I also had to learn how to hack websites so I taught myself web dev in w3school.
I generally know more than my CS friends, not because I took more classes than them but because I kept asking questions anything how computer works. So keep asking questions - how does compiler work? How does facebook remember me?
Some stuff are too sophisticated to be on google. Thats when you go to amazon and buy the book.
EDIT:
I didnt' write the details because my phone was short on battery. This is the path I taught myself: (in order)
1. C/C++
2. Data Structures
3. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Gives you a better grasp of how computer works and what you would be dealing with when you become a developer. I think this is something that distinguishes self-taught programmer and formally educated programmer.
4. Operating Systems Concepts(The dinosaur book)
I finished the pintos project( course project in OS class in stanford).
After you read these, it entirely depends on which part of computer science you want to stress on. I excluded those frameworks/language/linux because I think they are something to get used to by laying hands on, not to be studied so seriously. Although people distinguish 'formally educated' programmer, I doubt they apply more knowledge than they have learnt from above list when developing. (Of course, some sophisticated subjects such as vision processing, graphics, algorithms require further studies).
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I never knew anything about programming before I took introductory programming class in my first semester of freshmen year.
As a ME student I had to teach myself without taking CS classes during semester so I simply went through all the lecture notes on Data structures, OOP, and I also did assignments that were handed out during semester. I also did some class projects in standford (i.e. Pintos)
Aside from those 'academic programming', I got into hacking club in my school, where I learned linux, python, unix api programming, and a general sense of how to teach myself by googling. I also had to learn how to hack websites so I taught myself web dev in w3school.
I generally know more than my CS friends, not because I took more classes than them but because I kept asking questions anything how computer works. So keep asking questions - how does compiler work? How does facebook remember me?
Some stuff are too sophisticated to be on google. Thats when you go to amazon and buy the book.
EDIT:
I didnt' write the details because my phone was short on battery. This is the path I taught myself: (in order)
1. C/C++
2. Data Structures
3. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Gives you a better grasp of how computer works and what you would be dealing with when you become a developer. I think this is something that distinguishes self-taught programmer and formally educated programmer.
4. Operating Systems Concepts(The dinosaur book)
I finished the pintos project( course project in OS class in stanford).
After you read these, it entirely depends on which part of computer science you want to stress on. I excluded those frameworks/language/linux because I think they are something to get used to by laying hands on, not to be studied so seriously. Although people distinguish 'formally educated' programmer, I doubt they apply more knowledge than they have learnt from above list when developing. (Of course, some sophisticated subjects such as vision processing, graphics, algorithms require further studies).
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Continue reading...
