I always wonder this about other subjects and wish there were better guides listing the topics one needs to know — and how to learn them. Since I know a bit of

I always wonder this about other subjects and wish there were better guides listing the topics one needs to know — and how to learn them. Since I know a bit of CS, I’ll try to do my part here. In college, I found this lecture series to be an excellent supplement to my autonama and formal languages course. I haven’t watched the whole thing, but it should check your “theory of computation” box. The lecturer is fantastic and thorough. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL601FC994BDD963E4 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL601FC994BDD963E4 The prerequisites for this should be discrete math, but to be honest, depending on how comfortable you are with math in general, you could probably skip it and look things up as needed. Another person to look into is Scott Young who taught himself the MIT CS curriculum in a year. His book Ultralearning is excellent and contains many tips that would help with self-studying CS. Unless you just want to dive into the content, Ultralearning would actually be my first recommendation before learning CS fundamentals.