Computer Science

Notes

• Work through at least the first three chapters of SICP and doing the exercises. For additional practice, work through a set of small programming problems like those on exercism.

Additional

Same course but with python instead of Scheme (Stk)

• Books: Composing Programs
• Lectures: 61A taught by John DeNero at Berkley.

• Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective. Most courses go from chapter 1 to 6. Do this course
• The Elements of Computing Systems (Nand2Tetris). Each chapter involves building a small piece of the overall system, from writing elementary logic gates in HDL, through a CPU and assembler, all the way to an application the size of a Tetris game.

• The Algorithm Design Manual (book)
• Skiena’s or Tim’s on Coursera (video lectures)

Additional

• Leetcode
• Problem solving book after the manual: How to Solve It

• MIT Lecture Notes (book)
• MIT Video Lectures (video lecture)

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (book)
• xv6 labs (labs)

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (book)
• Standford: Introduction to Computer Networking course (video lectures)
• Wireshark labs (labs)

• Data and Reality: A Timeless Perspective on Perceiving and Managing Information in Our Imprecise World. (book)

• Crafting Interpreters. Introductory book. (book)
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques & Tools. More traditional recommendation. (book)

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Practice oriented. (book)
• Distributed Systems, 3rd Edition. More traditional. (book)