English | 2021 | ASIN: B08L258P2P | 248 Pages | PDF, EPUB | 14.6 MB
Learn the computer science foundations you need to jump start your career. Ten chapters covering all the career-essential topics
Become confident in computer architecture, networking, databases and much more.
Perfect for self-taught developers, bootcamp graduates and anyone who wants to really understand how computers work.
Why you need computer science
When I started my first programming job I was crushingly aware of how little I knew. Sure, I could write code, but the computer itself was pretty much a magical box of mystery. I lacked the necessary mental model of how everything fitted together.
Worse than that, there was a lot I didn’t even realise that I didn’t know. Well-meaning colleagues would casually mention some concept or convention that I’d simply never heard of. How can you have confidence in your abilities when you’re not standing on a firm foundation?
The simple truth is that to be a great programmer, capable of handling anything that might come up, you need a solid foundation in computer science. You need to know how the computer works, what its capabilities are and what its limitations are.
But learning computer science is difficult. Things are even tougher if you’re learning by yourself and in your own time.
Where should you start? How do you chart a path through the whole of computer science, studying topics in the right order? How can you possibly work your way through the dozens of “classic”, doorstop textbooks?
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