<html><body><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I may (or may not ) be in the minority, but I would recommend strongly considering reading SICP - a classic text that is available for free online in full: </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html </div><div><br></div><div>Though the techniques are illustrated in LISP, it has been said ( and I agree ) that it will improve your skills as a programmer even if you never use a LISP for your programming language of choice. Especially now, when functional programming ideas are becoming more doable in perl than ever and newer languages like my current fave, clojure are becoming more popular.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of all, it will only cost you the time to read it :)</div><div><br></div><div>those were my two cents...</div><div>~A </div><div><br><br>On Sep 24, 2010, at 01:49 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="_stretch">2010/9/22 Todd Cranston-Cuebas <geekhunter@gmail.com>:<br>
> You all know I'm a huge fan of open-source and I'm convinced that the<br>
> OS world can provide an alternative educational track than going the college route.<br>
<br>
Hi, Todd. Could you please elaborate on that? I'd like to get a<br>
basic education in computer<br>
science but am not sure where to start. (I've been a sysadmin for<br>
over 12 years.)<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Aleksey<br>
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