Read this. It's shorter than the stuff already on your list: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.h

Read this. It's shorter than the stuff already on your list: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html You probably don't know who Peter Norvig is, or why his opinions matter more than anything on W3schools, but believe me that they do.