Readit Newsozanonay commented on Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers? · Posted by u/irishloop
Knowing the course material covered in https://bradfieldcs.com (most of which comes from the book https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/) will make you a better engineer.
Bradfield founder here: thanks for the recommendation but it's really not true that "most of [the course material] comes from CS:APP". It's a great book—which is why I recommend it so strongly in teachyourselfcs.com—but we use it only as a supplementary resource, for one of the eight courses we teach.
ozanonay commented on Books for Software Engineers in 2023 grantisom.com/2023/01/02/... · Posted by u/glisom
I'd also read the books from Teach Yourself CS (https://teachyourselfcs.com):
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
- The Algorithm Design Manual
- Mathematics for Computer Science
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
- Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
- Readings in Database Systems
- Crafting Interpreters
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Other books I've seen:
- Computer Graphics From Scratch
- Haskell Programming From First Principles
- Zero To Production In Rust
As the author of Teach Yourself CS I would definitely suggest against trying to fit this in a year! Maybe aim for CS:APP and 1-2 others, and if you have time for more that's a bonus. Most of these are books to work through, not "read".
ozanonay commented on Teach Yourself Computer Science (2020 update) teachyourselfcs.com/... · Posted by u/ozanonay
This guide has been posted to HN a number of times by others, typically with a very positive response.
I recently made a major update, in particular: strongly recommending _Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective_ and _Designing Data-Intensive Applications_; recommending _Crafting Interpreters_ over the Dragon Book for those new to compilers; updating a number of broken links (due to shutdown of Lagunita); and, adding a few secondary recommendations
ozanonay commented on Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource? · Posted by u/rxsel
Hi there, I'm the author. Yes this list precisely constitutes the topics in computer science on which I believe a software engineer with an informal education should focus. It's based on my experience of having taught computer science to over 1,000 junior to mid-level engineers, mostly bootcamp grads, in person in small classes over the last 5 years.
I've been meaning to update it slightly, to recommend _Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective_ over P&H (although P&H is still excellent) as well as Martin Kleppmann's book _Designing Data-Intensive Applications_ for distributed systems.