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Ask HN: Which school produces the best programmers or software engineers?

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Has anyone self taught CS/Math undergrad curricula from public course materials?

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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn proof based math without a teacher?

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Learn to Program: The Fundamentals from UToronto (coursera.org)

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Ask HN: Which CS topics should I study to be able to work with data efficiently?

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Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?

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Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming (colah.github.io)

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What programming language should I learn? (trevorblackwell.com)

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An Introduction to Statistical Learning [Python Edition] (statlearning.com)

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CS61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (eecs.berkeley.edu)

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Ask HN: Which book has had the most meaningful contribution in your life?

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You and Your Research [pdf] (cloudfront.net)

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Ask HN: Which is the best book you read in grad school or your research career?

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Ask HN: What is the most mind bending thing you learnt in college/ grad school?

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Ask HN: Which books are best written for self study on any topic?

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Ask HN: College students who read, which is the best book you read in college?

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Ask HN: Where did you first come across functional programming?

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Build Your Own Lisp (buildyourownlisp.com)

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Ask HN: From which textbook have you learnt the most?

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Ask HN: Which is the best programming book you've come across?

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CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley (datastructur.es)

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Ask HN: Which books helped you gain mathematical maturity?

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Ask HN: Books that helped you become a better person?

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Ask HN: How many of you HNers learned to program for the first time in college?

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Ask HN: Which CS departments worldwide provide the best undergrad education?

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Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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Ask HN: Things that blew your mind as a programmer and/or computer scientist?

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Ask HN: Suggest some of the best books in field XYZ for self study

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Ask HN: Anyone who learned to code for the first time after 2020?

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Ask HN: What are some of the most interesting YouTube channels to follow?

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Ask HN: What is the most important life advice you have tested in real?

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Ask HN: Why has functional programming become so popular oustide academia?

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Ask HN: Which is the most mindblowing course or book you have completed in 2022?

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What are some codebases from which beginners can learn to write good code?

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Ask HN: CS61 series from Berkeley, the best set of foundational CS courses?

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Ask HN: How to learn CS and programming on your own?

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A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing [Book] (dcic-world.org)

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Ask HN: Which is the best self improvement lesson you learnt from a book?

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Which is the best course you have completed on any topic under the sun?

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Which is the best course you have completed on any topic under the sun?

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Ask HN: What have you achieved by improving your conversational skills?

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Ask HN: Things that have made you a better programmer

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Ask HN: As a programmer do you earn your living from a non-regular job?

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Ask HN: Taking which online or offline courses have humbled you?

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Strong reasoning skills and mathematical thinking is important to program well? (github.com/spamegg1)

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Ask HN: How has functional programming influenced your thinking?

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Ask HN: In 2023, what resource will you pick for learning AI/ML/DL?

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Which books or courses to recommend to beginners for learning coding in 2023?

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Ask HN: What will you suggest to fresh students of programming in 2023?

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How to learn to change perspectives to understand other people's thoughts?

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Ask HN: Why are physics and math majors omnipresent in diverse research domains?

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Ask HN: Educational YouTube channels run by individual content creators?

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Do you ever like non-fiction books about a subject you have some expertise in?

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Ask HN: Math book recommendation for a long detached engineering major?

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Which MOOCs that you have taken till 2022 delivered tangible outcomes?

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Ask HN: Math books you recommend just for the way they are written?

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Ask HN: Where do I find good and comprehensible code to read and learn?

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Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?

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Ask HN: As a self-taught programmer, how did you fill in knowledge gaps?

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Ask HN: Has learning mathematics made your thinking as a programmer any better?

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Ask HN: What does your mental model of programming look like?

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Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?

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Ask HN: Which books and online courses made you a better software engineer?

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Ask HN: Which are the most interesting books you have read in 2022?

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Ask HN: What habits make a great engineer/programmer standout from average ones?

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Ask HN: Best book to learn programming in 2022?

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Ask HN: Which math/CS books follow a top-down approach for pedagogy?

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Ask HN: How do I learn to communicate effectively?

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Ask HN: What transformed you from a mere programmer into a great engineer?

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Ask HN: As a self taught programmer which books do you value the most?

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If you practice enough, you discover new problems that give rise to newer theory (twitter.com/shriramkmurthi)

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Ask HN: HN people who write meaningful software, how did you learn to program?

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The Essence of Software by Daniel Jackson (essenceofsoftware.com)

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Those who started programming with a functional language, did you like it?

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Ask HN: How did you become a good hacker?

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Ask HN: Have you built any project that generated enough income to not do a job?

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If your knowledge base is erased, which books will you read to become you again?

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Was there any book that converted you from spaghetti coder to a good programmer?

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Ask HN: How do I learn deep learning so that I can do research?

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Ask HN: Which frequently recommended CS/Math books do you absolutely hate?

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Ask HN: How prevalent is the use of recursion in production level software?

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Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?

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Ask HN: How is “How to Design Programs” (HtDP) as a first entry to programming?

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Ask HN: Which MOOCs in Math/CS are worth still worth taking in 2022?

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Ask HN: Which two books should every wannabe practitioner in your field read?

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Ask HN: What is the most sustainable way to be healthy and productive for life?

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Ask HN: As of 2022, which are some of the best MOOCs to get into CS/programming?

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Ask HN: What made you feel that coding as a skill can make you achieve feats?

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Ask HN: As a creator which creation of yours are you most proud of?

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