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Has anyone self taught CS/Math undergrad curricula from public course materials? | Sep 2023
A bunch of people are doing it at OSSU [0].

I personally did many full courses from open materials. These do take SERIOUS efforts and consistency. So be prepared for that.

[0]: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

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You maybe interested in OSSU: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
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I find youtube content to be very lowest common denominator and just a difficult form to learn from. There's open source comp sci curriculum that compile various MooCs and free college courses though that I thought was phenomenal: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
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https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
Ask HN: Free/Open Source equivalent to a CS bachelors degree? | Jun 2023
The closest I have found is this: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Wondering if anyone has found good alternatives or different options.

Teach yourself Computer Science functionally | Jun 2023
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This looks to me like a pretty traditional stack of Computer Science undergrad topics. A similar big list of topic/resources that's frequently linked to is: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Could you describe a bit more about what you're looking for when you say "traditional CompSci?"
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https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
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There are many resources these days. And that is also part of the problem. Because organization is very important.

Some of the resources you can try are:

Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science! https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Foundations of Computer Science http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html

MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu/search/?d=Electrical%20Engineering%20and...

and so on.

Try to stay clear of coding schools, dojos etc.

However, it would work best if you have a project idea in mind. Abstraction is your friend. You don't need to be an engineer, but an engineering / problem-solving mindset is very important. There are quite a few well known programmers who don't have the traditional CS background, including yours truly. I self-taught myself and keep learning and writing programs. Feel free to reach out to me (my encoded email is in my profile)