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I was a little surprised by the list of works included in the canon until I realized after a more careful reading that it's more of a reading list for a particular class the author appears to teach.

I'd love to see an actual CS canon some time. Anyone know of anything that comes closer to one?

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1- https://teachyourselfcs.com/

2- http://mfleck.cs.illinois.edu/building-blocks/

I'd love it if some more people could vouch for these sources. The both look very interesting.

They're both interesting but they're not "canons" in the traditional sense. The first is a short resource of the bare-bones subjects in CS with the handful of most popular books, and the second is an intro book about basic math and algorithms.

edit: to add, I think they're interesting but I would not refer people to them.

Hi! I co-wrote the first one, and it is definitely not intended to be a CS canon. Those books are our suggested resources for folk teaching themselves computer science, and were evaluated on that basis alone. We included not-great books where they're still the best we've found for a particular topic. Equally we excluded dozens of amazing books that are outside the scope of the resource.

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