My Open-Source CS Degree (in progress)

Summary

This curriculum mainly follows

Curriculum

• Intro CS
• Core CS
• Advanced CS
• Final project

Intro CS

Introduction to Programming

Topics covered: simple programs simple data structures

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Computing in Python I: Fundamentals and Procedural Programming	5 weeks	10 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Georgia Tech
Computing in Python II: Control Structures	5 weeks	10 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Georgia Tech
Computing in Python III: Data Structures	5 weeks	10 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Georgia Tech
Computing in Python IV: Objects & Algorithms	5 weeks	10 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Georgia Tech

Core CS

Core programming

Topics covered: functional programming design for testing program requirements common design patterns unit testing object-oriented design static typing dynamic typing and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java I: Foundations and Syntax Basics	6 weeks	6 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Georgia Tech
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java II: Object-Oriented Programming and Algorithms	6 weeks	6 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Georgia Tech
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java III: Exceptions, Data Structures, Recursion, and GUIs	6 weeks	6 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Georgia Tech
Object-Oriented Design	4 weeks	4 hours/week	✅	Certificate	University of Alberta
Design Patterns	4 weeks	4 hours/week	✅	Certificate	University of Alberta
Software Architecture	4 weeks	5 hours/week	✅	Certificate	University of Alberta
Service-Oriented Architecture	4 weeks	5 hours/week	✅	Certificate	University of Alberta

CS Tools

Topics covered: terminals and shell scripting vim command line environments version control and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	School
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education	2 weeks	12 hours/week	🅿️	MIT

Core systems

Topics covered: procedural programming manual memory management boolean algebra gate logic memory computer architecture assembly machine language virtual machines high-level languages compilers operating systems network protocols and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris	6 weeks	7-13 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: Nand to Tetris Part II	6 weeks	12-18 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces	10-12 weeks	6-10 hours/week	🅿️	Self-learn	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer Networking: a Top-Down Approach (Labs)	8 weeks	4-12 hours/week	⬜️	Self-learn	University of Massachusetts Amherst

Core theory

Topics covered: divide and conquer sorting and searching randomized algorithms graph search shortest paths data structures greedy algorithms minimum spanning trees dynamic programming NP-completeness and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Algorithmic Toolbox	5 weeks	4-8 hours/week	✅	Certificate	UCSD
Data Structures	4 weeks	5-10 hours/week	✅	Certificate	UCSD
Algorithms on Graphs	5 weeks	3-4 hours/week	✅	Certificate	UCSD
Algorithms on Strings	5 weeks	3-4 hours/week	✅	Certificate	UCSD
Advanced Algorithms and Complexity	5 weeks	3-4 hours/week	✅	Certificate	UCSD
Genome Assembly Programming Challenge	5 weeks	3-4 hours/week	✅	Certificate	UCSD

Core Security

Topics covered Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability Secure Design Defensive Programming Threats and Attacks Network Security Cryptography and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Information Security: Context and Introduction	5 weeks	3 hours/week	🅿️	Certificate	University of London
Principles of Secure Coding	4 weeks	4 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	University of London
Identifying Security Vulnerabilities	4 weeks	4 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	University of London
Identifying Security Vulnerabilities in C/C++Programming	4 weeks	5 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	University of London
Exploiting and Securing Vulnerabilities in Java Applications	4 weeks	5 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	University of London

Core applications

Topics covered: Agile methodology REST software specifications refactoring relational databases transaction processing data modeling neural networks supervised learning unsupervised learning OpenGL raytracing and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Databases: Modeling and Theory	2 weeks	10 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Stanford
Databases: Relational Databases and SQL	2 weeks	10 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Stanford
Databases: Semistructured Data	2 weeks	10 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Stanford
Machine Learning	11 weeks	4-6 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Stanford
Computer Graphics	6 weeks	12 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	UCSD
Software Engineering: Introduction	6 weeks	8-10 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	University of British Colombia

Core Ethics

Topics covered: Social Context Analytical Tools Professional Ethics Intellectual Property Privacy and Civil Liberties and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Ethics, Technology and Engineering	9 weeks	2 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Eindhoven University of Technology
Intellectual Property Law in Digital Age	4 weeks	2 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Saint Petersburg State University
Data Privacy Fundamentals	3 weeks	3 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Northeastern University

Advanced CS (electives)

Topics covered: debugging theory and practice goal-oriented programming parallel computing object-oriented analysis and design UML large-scale software architecture and design and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Parallel Programming	4 weeks	6-8 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	EPFL
Compilers	9 weeks	6-8 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Stanford
Introduction to Haskell	14 weeks	-	⬜️	Self-learn	University of Pennsylvania
Learn Prolog Now!	12 weeks	-	⬜️	Self-learn	-
Software Debugging	8 weeks	6 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Udacity
Software Testing	4 weeks	6 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Udacity

Advanced systems

Topics covered: digital signaling combinational logic CMOS technologies sequential logic finite state machines processor instruction sets caches pipelining virtualization parallel processing virtual memory synchronization primitives system call interface and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Computation Structures 1: Digital Circuits	10 weeks	6 hours/week	⬜️	Self-learn	MIT
Computation Structures 2: Computer Architecture	10 weeks	6 hours/week	⬜️	Self-learn	MIT
Computation Structures 3: Computer Organization	10 weeks	6 hours/week	⬜️	Self-learn	MIT

Advanced theory

Topics covered: formal languages Turing machines computability event-driven concurrency automata distributed shared memory consensus algorithms state machine replication computational geometry theory propositional logic relational logic Herbrand logic game trees and more

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Theory of Computation (Lectures)	8 weeks	10 hours/week	⬜️	Self-learn	-
Computational Geometry	16 weeks	8 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Tsinghua Univeristy
Game Theory	8 weeks	3 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Stanford

Final project (elective)

Courses	Duration	Effort	Status	Certificate	School
Fullstack Open	12 weeks	6 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	University of Helsinki
Modern Robotics (Specialization)	26 weeks	2-5 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Northwestern
Data Mining (Specialization)	30 weeks	2-5 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	University of Illinois
Big Data (Specialization)	30 weeks	3-5 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	UCSD
Internet of Things (Specialization)	30 weeks	1-5 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	UCSD
Cloud Computing (Specialization)	30 weeks	2-6 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	University of Illinois
Data Science: Foundations using R (Specialization)	20 weeks	1-6 hours/week	✅	Certificate	Johns Hopkins University
Functional Programming in Scala (Specialization)	29 weeks	4-5 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	EPFL
Game Design and Development with Unity 2020 (Specialization)	6 months	5 hours/week	⬜️	Certificate	Michigan State
Algorithms for Battery Management Systems Specialization (Specialization)	6 months	5 hours/week	✅	Certificate	University of Colorado

Note:

• ✅ Done
• 🅿️ In progress
• ⬜️ Not started