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First year CS student currently on vacations looking for programming course to follow. (self.programming)

submitted 11 months ago by Kawi to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I'm a first year CS student and this 3 month period of vacations I want to follow a good free course on programming. If it's possible, I also want to learn how is the process in which a code written in a text editor can become an executable with it's GUI in the operating system (currently using Linux), because I really have no idea how that works.

Browsing the web for it have become overwhelming and I'm finding trouble in deciding what to follow, and I also need some order in order to learn things.

I would really appreciate if you can tell me if you know any course that meets this requirements.

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[–] solrize 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Download SICP (find with search engine), read through it and do the exercises.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure that can be completed in 3 months by most people on their own. But I think it's a great option anyway. Probably best to use Emacs (Edwin) in doing so.

If OP chooses this option, I like this HTML5 version the best: https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/

[–] solrize 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's fine, just make much progress as you can in the 3 months. It will be good prep for a CS program. It's also ok to read ahead and so on.