CS self-teaching resources

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So, I've been programming for quite a few years now. And now, after reading an article from today's Insider, I felt like I ought to teach myself some computer science theory (I'm still in high school, and I can't really rely on it to get me *any* kind of IT-related knowledge).
So; does anyone know any (free and qualitative? :D) resources that I can use to teach myself in a *structured* manner (I probably could get bits and pieces from various sources on the internet, but that's what I've been doing so far anyways)?

Posted 1-Dec-10 8:01am

Narvius

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Solution 4

I've always gone to the school of hard knocks.

Mistakes are what you get when you don't have experience. Experience is what you get when you make mistakes.

Posted 2-Dec-10 2:53am

#realJSOP

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Check out some university websites - they may offer online courses that could help you learn theory in a *structured* manner.

Posted 2-Dec-10 2:42am

Abhinav S

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Slacker007 · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-01T08:05:00

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Come up with a project, not too big, and design, develop, and test your project. Try to use a little bit of everything you have learned so far and other topics that you have not learned so far.

This helped me learn a lot when I was starting off. Good luck.

And post here when you run into problems that you have "tried" to fix.

Posted 1-Dec-10 8:05am

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Narvius 2-Dec-10 8:21am

Weeeell, the problem is not programming itself; I did write a few things over the years, a few less and a few more ambitious, using four different languages, and at least one big framework (XNA); I just never really got the whole CS theory down, and I think I probably should.