A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science

&gt; High School Mathematics<p>Whenever I try to catch up with maths (in Khan Academy and elsewhere), I always end up in an awkward state where I keep recursively researching less and less advanced subjects because of gaps of various sizes in my fundamental knowledge. It&#x27;s incredibly demotivating.

I had a student who was basically performing at a 6th grade math level despite being in 11th grade. I told that student to go through Khan Academy starting from Pre-K all the way to 12th grade and don&#x27;t continue unless they achieved mastery. That student went from the C math student, to ultimately scoring a perfect score on the SAT II Math. So I highly recommend everyone start for the absolute basics, even if it feels like a blow to the ego

For understanding higher math I have found this primer course extremely useful:<p>Introduction to Mathematical Thinking by Keith Devlin (Stanford) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;mathematical-thinking" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;mathematical-thinking</a>

That’s just the usual memes. Is this about « computer science » ? Then why isn’t there anything logic, algorithms, Turing machines, etc.. Is this « dev »? Then what’s the point of discrete maths?

I&#x27;ve found Teach Yourself CS a better resource, albeit more advanced: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teachyourselfcs.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teachyourselfcs.com</a>

I am looking for a bottle of computer science motivation for my 16 year old. I do an hour a week coding with him. It is not enough, he does no coding in between times. There are other things he prioritises ahead of coding. (School, music, YouTube videos, and chess.)

Not sure on the prerequisites. I have absolutely no discipline and still managed to get my compsci degree!

The CMU database course is fire<p>I want to make a non C++ workbook for that course to write an s3-based relational database (for fun), but I don’t have time for other projects because of poor time management

Might interest some people looking to learn some Computer Science basics. It&#x27;s a small aggregation of openly auditable university courses.

If someone is interested I highly recommend Tech Yourself CS website, it is much more concise and complete set of resources.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teachyourselfcs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teachyourselfcs.com&#x2F;</a>

As someone who could never afford to get a degree at university, I love this kind of stuff!<p>I have gaps in my own knowledge, so I keep going through stuff, to find what I&#x27;m missing and fill it in. Eg I&#x27;m not great on O(x) calculations.

Is this like Poor Richard&#x27;s Almanac?