Though I am very thankful for my bootcamp experience and the 5 years of professional programming experience, I know my education and knowledge in CS is just scratching the surface. There are many fundamental concepts and topics in which I have a rudimentary understanding of. 95% of the time my basic understanding was all I needed, yet these occurrences were always a reminder of the education I've been missing.
So that's where this repo comes into play. I will be following a traditional CS undergraduate curriculum outlined below. This will give me the missing pieces I need to take me to the next level in my career.
The curriculum is based off of the Teach Yourself Computer Science and covers the following subjects:
Note: The goal is to spend 100 - 200 hours per subject.
- Programming (In Progress)
- Computer Architecture
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Math for CS
- Operating Systems
- Computer Networking
- Databases
- Languages and Compilers
- Distributed Systems
Teach Yourself Computer Science is made up of recommended textbooks and MOOC video series per subject.
This curriculum was built by The Bradfield School of Computer Science, and is specially tailored to self-taught software engineers and bootcamp graduates like myself.
I will cover the actual contents of each subject module, and will likely find additional resources to learn on top of the recommended ones.
- Complete this guide in 2 years (or less) est. completion August 2021
- Fulfill prerequisites to get into a CS Grad Program if that's something I want at the time.
- Squash that thought in the back of my head that
Bootcamp Grad < CS Grad - Document, Blog, and Build things that I learn through out this process.
- Keep evolving this repo, and let others use it as a template for their own self-taught journey.