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+1. What are the fundamentals of CS? Algorithms?
by smburdick 3y ago
+1. What are the fundamentals of CS? Algorithms?
- el_oni 3y agoand data structures. Theres a book called Algorithms + Datastructures = programs which i've heard good things about. I've also heard good things about 7 programming languages in 7 weeks, as well as crafting interpreters. The latter 2 I intend to pick up this year
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- Jtsummers 3y agoNo particular order but how they came to mind: Data structures, algorithms, algorithm analysis, various discrete math topics (set theory and number theory, a bit of graph theory, are usually included in a typical CS undergrad curriculum), models of concurrency, models of computing (lambda calculus, Turing machines), complexity classes, Chomsky hierarchy, type theory (some might consider this more advanced, varies by school and its lean towards practical or theoretical CS), systems of logic.
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- tombert 3y agoIf software engineering whiteboard interviews are anything to go by, strictly hash tables. Hash tables are the only thing that matter, unless of course the interview process is broken...
- koolba 3y agoBonus points if some kind of list requirement comes up and you deftly maneuver the conversation back to using your hash table with array indexes as keys.
- sn9 3y agohttps://teachyourselfcs.com/ https://teachyourselfcs.com/
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoDan Grossman's "Programming Languages" series on Coursera was important in helping me connect the dots. And that was after only completing the first of three parts of the course...
- anthk 3y agoRead SICP and do the Scheme (a LISP) exercises oline: https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ If you want to run these locally, I can set Chicken Scheme for you.