I disagree. The things that come up every day in practical, real-world professional software development, such as design patterns and SOLID are the things that

I disagree. The things that come up every day in practical, real-world professional software development, such as design patterns and SOLID are the things that professional autodidacts normally have plenty of experience in and knowledge of. The things that they have missed by not taking a Computer Science degree are precisely those things that don't tend to come up, such as big-O and the behaviour of various sorting algorithms. Anyway, here are two paragraphs on the linked page that you might like to see: "More than just theory, this book covers many practical areas of the industry as well, such as: Database design, SOLID, How a compiler works, sorting and searching algorithms, Big-O notation, Lambda Calculus, TDD and BDD." "One of the more subjective parts of the book, but I was asked by many people to write about these things. Specifically: SOLID, structural design, TDD, BDD, and design patterns."