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It was tiny when it started out. Now it's huge.

Is there a similar list for computer vision and/or computational photography?

Why exactly did it make programming joyful?

CS programs are less about teaching kids CS and more about preparing them for jobs at FAANG companies

So true..

Btw, do you have any good suggestions about books or other materials (like codebases), from where one can learn more?

Operating Systems: The Xinu Approach

https://xinu.cs.purdue.edu/#textbook

Yes.

HtDP more so. It builds a thinking and problem solving framework for your mind. That is recursive thinking based on the data structure.

Once you can think that way you can code in any programming language with its niche syntax or constructs.

Where did you learn to see it like that?

If you really want to learn functional programming you can take a look at How to Design Programs. It is free online.

https://htdp.org/

I certainly see younger programmers who don't understand simple "separation of concerns" when writing code and get themselves in to trouble with overly complex approaches

I was also like this before. I didn't receive a formal CS education. I majored in electrical engineering. Then I read the book How to Design Programs[0] and understood that I have been approaching coding problems all wrong.

[0] https://htdp.org/

Waterloo uses the HTDP book to teach freshmen introductory programming and CS. Now, I am sure, there are many students who take CS135 with no knowledge of what programming is. They are taught a functional language without state or mutation.

My question is how do they fare when they are to use imperative languages later on in the CS program where they have to use messy for loops and mutation and memory allocation? Is it better because they did CS135 first or hard?

To be frank, I don't think imperative language use is going away anytime soon. So, they need to learn the best use of both the worlds, hence, asking.

Fantastic explanation. My doubt was half cleared by skrishnamurthi. You cleared it entirely. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion. Btw, which compiler class are you talking about?

It should be read not as it's written, but rather as `return the value of a`

So values that are returned need not be primitive values like basic ints, floats, strings, etc? They can be complicated structure values also?

Got it, then!

Where to learn these, if not taught at universities? Books?

Something of this sort is also done by Andrej Karpathy in his Zero to Hero Series:https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

This is the undergraduate curriculum for additional major in Robotics at CMU:

https://www.ri.cmu.edu/education/academic-programs/undergrad...

You can google the course numbers and find out which of the courses have an available webpage and study material from there.

Do you have any books/online courses recommendations for learning what you just described?

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. That ONE book was enough to get me programming more and more.

And also building tiny projects on my own interest.

Humans read books, AI don't "read" books. Whatever they do, isn't reading. Because humans themselves don't understand what the process of reading involves. So they can't built something that reads. Simple.