Learning Computer Science

In this section, we look at the top places to study Computer Science online

Getting Started

• Start with the free Harvard CS50 course on EDX. Check out the sub r/cs50 has a lot of like minded people learning together.

• Open Source Society University: This is a solid path for those of you who want to complete a Computer Science course on your own time, for free, with courses from the best universities in the World.

• Learn Java OOP (here is an excellent course): Java MOOC

Web Development

• Free Code Camp for web development

• Colt Steele has a good web dev course and is highly recommended to do in parallel with FreeCodeCamp

• The Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl is the Bible for learning Ruby on Rails

Specialized and Advanced Topics

• Build your own operating system: NAND2TETRIS

• For x86 assembly: http://opensecuritytraining.info/IntroX86.html

• For deeper knowledge of OOP check out Sandi Metz’s POODR

• The canonical handbook for C Programming: K&R

Other Resources

• Stackoverflow is your friend where you can ask any question you have or bounce ideas off of others.

• Cave of Programming : All kinds of programming

• r/arduino for some embedded programming fun!

• Courses for anything under the sun: https://www.edx.org/ & https://www.coursera.org/

Articles and Posts

• The MIT Challenge is Scott Young’s blog on how he completed the entire 4 year MIT Computer Science curriculum in 12 months