A lot of people building software today never took the traditional CS path. They arrived through curiosity, a job that needed automating, or a late-night itch to make something work. This week, David Kopec joins me to talk about rebuilding computer science for exactly those folks, the ones who learned to program first and are now ready to understand the deeper ideas that power the tools they use every day.

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David Kopec: davekopec.com

Classic Computer Science Book: amazon.com

Computer Science from Scratch Book: computersciencefromscratch.com

Computer Science from Scratch at NoStartch (CSFS30 for 30% off): nostarch.com

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