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"an equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God"

Programming

Don't be the person who "never quite understood" something Like recursion.

Best Book: Structure and interpretation of computer programs

Best video lecture: Brian Harvey's Berkeley CS 61A

Structure and interpretation of computer programs

Computer Architecture

If you don't have a solid mental model of how a computer actually works, all of your higher-level abstraction will be brittle.

Best book: computer systems:A Programmer's perspective

Best video lectures: Berkeley CS 61C

Computer systems

Algorithms and Data structures

If you don't know how to use ubiquitous Data structures like stacks, queues, trees, and graphs, you won't be able to solve challenging problems.

Best book: The Algorithm Design Manual

Best video lecture: Steven Skiena's lectures