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Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!

• About
• Motivation & Preparation
• Curriculum
• How to use this guide
• Prerequisite
• How to collaborate
• Community
• Team
• References

This is asolid path for those of you who want to complete aComputer Science course on your own time,for free, with courses from thebest universities in the World.

In our curriculum, we give preference to MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) style courses because these courses were created with our style of learning in mind.

Here are two interesting links that can makeall the difference in your journey.

The first one is a motivational video that shows a guy that went through the "MIT Challenge", which consists of learning the entire4-year MIT curriculum for Computer Science in1 year.

• MIT Challenge

The second link is a MOOC that will teach you learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. These arefundamental abilities to succeed in our journey.

• Learning How to Learn

Are you ready to get started?

• Introduction to Computer Science
• Math (Mathematical Thinking)
• Program Design
• Math (Calculus & Discrete Math)
• Algorithms
• Programming Paradigms
• Software Testing
• Math (Calculus)
• Software Architecture
• Theory
• Software Engineering
• Math (Probability)
• Computer Architecture
• Operating Systems
• Computer Networks
• Databases
• Cloud Computing
• Math (Linear Algebra)
• Cryptography
• Security
• Compilers
• Parallel Computing
• UX Design
• Computer Graphics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Big Data
• Data Mining
• Internet of Things
• Specializations

After finishing the courses above, start your specializations on the topics that you have more interest.

The following platforms currently offer specializations:

This guide was developed to be consumed in a linear approach. What does this mean? That you should complete one course at a time.

The courses arealready in the order you should complete them. Just start in theIntroduction to Computer Science section and after finishing the first course, start the next one.

OBS: If the course is not open, do it with the archived resources or wait until next class is open.

1. Create an account inTrello.
2. Copythis board to your personal account. See how to copy a boardhere.

Now that you have a copy of our official board, you just need to pass the cards to theDoing column orDone column as you progress in your study.

We also havelabels to help you have more control through the process. The meaning of each of these labels is:

• Main Curriculum: cards with that label represent courses that are listed in our curriculum.
• Extra Courses: cards with that label represent courses that was added by the student.
• Doing: cards with that label represent courses the student is current doing.
• Done: cards with that label represent courses finished by the student. Those cards should also have the link for at least one project/article built with the knowledge acquired in such course.
• Section: cards with that label represent the section that we have in our curriculum. Those cards with theSection label are only to help the organization of the Done column. You should put theCourse's cards below its respectiveSection's card.
• Extra Sections: cards with that label represent sections that was added by the student.

The intention of this board is to provide our students a way to track their progress, and also the ability to show their progress through a public page for friends, family, employers, etc. You can change the status of your board to bepublic orprivate.

Yes! The intention is to concludeall the courses listed here!

It may take longer to complete all courses compared to a regular CS graduation, but I canguarantee you that yourreward will be proportional to your extraeffort!

You must focus on yourhabit, andforget about goals. Try to invest 1 ~ 2 hoursevery day studying this curriculum. If you do this,inevitably you'll finish this curriculum.

See more about "Commit to a process, not a goal"here.

Here inOSS University, you donot need to take exams, because we are focused onreal projects!

In order to show everyone that yousuccessfully finished a course, you should create areal project.

"What does it mean?"

After you finish a course, you should think about areal world problem that you can solve using the acquired knowledge in the course. You don't need to create a big project, but you must create something tovalidate andconsolidate your knowledge, and also to show to the world that you are capable to create something useful with the concepts that you learned.

The projects of all students will be listed inthis file.Submit your project's information in that file after you conclude it.

Put the OSSU-CS badge in the README of your repository!

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You can create this project alone or with other students!

• Projects: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language.
• app-specs: A curated list of applications specifications and implementations to practice new technologies, improve your portfolio and sharpen your skills.
• FreeCodeCamp: Course that teaches you fullstack JavaScript development through a bunch of projects.
• JavaScript Projects: List of projects related with theJavaScript Path.

And you should also...

This is acrucial part of your journey through all those courses.

Youneed to have in mind that what you are able tocreate with the concepts that you learned will be your certificateand this is what really matters!

In order to show that youreally learned those things, you need to becreative!

Here are some tips about how you can do that:

• Articles: create blog posts to synthesize/summarize what you learned.
• GitHub repository: keep your course's files organized in a GH repository, so in that way other students can use it to study with your annotations.

We love cooperative work! Use ourchannels to communicate with other fellows to combine and create new projects!

My friend, here is the best part of liberty! You can useany language that you want to complete the courses.

Theimportant thing for each course is tointernalize thecore concepts and to be able to use them with whatever tool (programming language) that you wish.

You must shareonly files that you areallowed to!Do NOT disrespect the code of conduct that you signed in the beginning of some courses.

Be creative in order to show your progress! 😄

Watch this repository for futures improvements and general information.

Theonly things that you need to know are how to useGit andGitHub. Here are some resources to learn about them:

Note: Just pick one of the courses below to learn the basics. You will learn a lot more once you get started!

• Try Git
• Git - the simple guide
• GitHub Training & Guides
• GitHub Hello World
• Git Immersion
• How to Use Git and GitHub

Curriculum Version:6.0

To showrespect to all of our students, we will keep aCHANGELOG file that contains all the alterations that our curriculum may suffer.

Now we have astable version of the curriculum, which won't change anymore, only in exceptional cases (outdated courses, broken links, etc).

Our students cantrust in this curriculum because it has beencarefully planned and coversall thecore topics that a conventional Computer Science course covers.

We also include modern topics, making this course one of thebest options for those who want to become a Computer Scientist and/or a Software Engineer/Developer.

You canopen an issue and give us your suggestions as to how we can improve this guide, or what we can do to improve the learning experience.

You can alsofork this project and send apull request to fix any mistakes that you have found.

If you want to suggest a new resource, send a pull request adding such resource to theextras section.

Theextras section is a place where all of us will be able to submit interesting additional articles, books, courses and specializations, keeping our curriculumas immutable and concise as possible.

Let's do it together! 😄

Subscribe to/r/opensourcesociety!

Join us in ourgroup!

You can also interact throughGitHub issues.

We also have a chat room!

AddOpen Source Society University to yourFacebook profile!

ps: A forum is an ideal way to interact with other students as we do not lose important discussions, which usually occur in communication via chat apps.Please use our subreddit/group for important discussions.

• Curriculum Founder:Eric Douglas
• Curriculum Maintainer:Eric Douglas
• Contributors:contributors

• Google - Guide for Technical Development
• Coursera
• edX
• Udacity
• Future Learn
• Stanford University
• MIT Open Courseware
• Obtaining a Thorough CS Background Online