If you have the money and time to take classes, I'd recommend which ever of the standard CS foundation courses interest you: - Programming Languages (and then

If you have the money and time to take classes, I'd recommend which ever of the standard CS foundation courses interest you: - Programming Languages (and then Compilers, my favorite) - Algorithms - Operating Systems At a decent school with some level of difficulty, you'll learn the big picture while doing fun projects for homework, along with history. Programming is a craft, not a science, but it overlaps with math in a lot of places.