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I love this. It has a Back to Basics, no BS approach to CS that appeals to me. I agree with all the recommendations. A couple of tiny comments: - I know that l

I love this. It has a Back to Basics, no BS approach to CS that appeals to me. I agree with all the recommendations. A couple of tiny comments: - I know that learning C is not strictly speaking part of Computer Science, but it is a nice counterpart to SICP, ties in with other topics (such as computer architecture and OS) and should definitely belong to this curriculum. The authors of this site themselves have defended C in another blog post. Like pg would say, all you need is Lisp and C. - IMO a better option for learning databases is Jennifer Widom's MOOC: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html http://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html

sn9 10y ago
Seconding. Widom's Database course is extremely well done, and very amenable to picking and choosing a relevant subset for your needs. Working through K&R C or something similar should be a prerequisite for the OS course and Skiena's lectures.
zerr 10y ago
Isn't that DB MOOC more about using DBs rather than implementing them?
- aerioux 10y ago
  It's more about relational algebra rather than implementation (at least when I took it)
  - zerr 10y ago
    Yes, but what we need is more materials about actual implementation - how ACID is implemented (e.g. in C++), how query parsing/optimization/execution is realized, etc...