🎓 Path to a free self-taught graduation in Computer Science!

Contents

• About
• Becoming an OSS student
• Topics
• Next Goals
• References

About

This is a solid path for you that want to graduate in a Computer Science course in your own time, for free, with courses from the best universities of the World.

Here we will try to choose a maximum of 3 courses for each category. Futurely, more categories and/or courses can be added to this list or in a more advanced list.

Initially, we will also give preference for MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) type of courses because those courses were created with our style of learning in mind.

Becoming an OSS student

Your registration for this graduation course will be effectuated after you create your profile in our students folder.

"How can I do this?"

Just fork this repository and create a markdown file named with your GitHub username. It’s that simple.

Use the model below to create your own file:

# Student Profile

- **Name**: YOUR NAME
- **GitHub**: [@your_username]()
- **Twitter**: [@your_username]()
- **Linkedin**: [link]()
- **Website**: [yourblog.com]()

# Completed Courses

**Name of the Section**

Course|Files
:--|:--:
Course Name| [link]()

ps: In the Completed Courses section, you should link your repository that contain the files that you created in the respective course.

"Why should I do this?"

Making a public commitment, we have much more chances to succeed in our graduation, know better our fellows and share the things that we have done.

For those reasons we are using that strategy.

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Topics

• Introduction
• Program Design
• Programming Paradigms
• Software Testing
• Math
• Algorithms
• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering
• Operating Systems
• Computer Networks
• Databases
• Cloud Computing
• Cryptography
• Compilers
• UX Design
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Internet of Things
• Big Data
• Data Mining

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Introduction

Course	Duration
Introduction to Computer Science	9 ~ 15 weeks
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python	9 weeks
Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science	10 weeks

Program Design

Course	Duration
Systematic Program Design- Part 1: The Core Method	5 weeks
Systematic Program Design- Part 2: Arbitrary Sized Data	5 weeks
Systematic Program Design- Part 3: Abstraction, Search and Graphs	5 weeks

Programming Paradigms

Course	Duration
Introduction to Functional Programming	7 weeks
Principles of Reactive Programming	7 weeks
Programming Languages	8-16 hours/week
Functional Programming Principles in Scala	7 weeks

Software Testing

Course	Duration
Software Testing	4 weeks
Software Debugging	8 weeks

Math

Course	Duration
Effective Thinking Through Mathematics	9 weeks
Applications of Linear Algebra Part 1	5 weeks
Applications of Linear Algebra Part 2	4 weeks
Linear and Discrete Optimization	3-6 hours/week
Probabilistic Graphical Models	11 weeks
Game Theory	9 weeks

Algorithms

Course	Duration
Algorithms, Part I	6 weeks
Algorithms, Part II	6 weeks
Analysis of Algorithms	6 weeks

Software Architecture

Course	Duration
Web Application Architectures	6-9 hours/week
Microservice Architectures TODO	-

Software Engineering

Course	Duration
Engineering Software as a Service (SaaS), Part 1	9 weeks
Engineering Software as a Service (Saas), Part 2	8 weeks
Software Product Management Specialization	-

Operating Systems

Course	Duration
Operating System Engineering	-
Operating Systems and System Programming	-

Computer Networks

Course	Duration
Computer Networks	4–12 hours/we
Software Defined Networking	7-10 hours/we

Databases

Course	Duration
Introduction to Databases	-
Database Design	9 hours
Database Management Essentials	weeks

Cloud Computing

Course	Duration
Introduction to Cloud Computing	4 weeks
Cloud Computing Specialization	-

Cryptography

Course	Duration
Cryptography I	6 weeks
Cryptography II	6 weeks
Applied Cryptography	8 weeks

Compilers

Course	Duration
Compilers	11 weeks

UX Design

Course	Duration
Interaction Design Specialization	-
UX Design for Mobile Developers	6 weeks

Artificial Intelligence

Course	Duration
Artificial Intelligence	12 weeks

Machine Learning

Course	Duration
Practical Machine Learning	4 weeks
Machine Learning	11 weeks
Neural Networks for Machine Learning	8 weeks

Natural Language Processing

Course	Duration
Natural Language Processing	10 weeks
Natural Language Processing	10 weeks

Internet of Things

Course	Duration
An Introduction to Programming the Internet of Things Specialization	-
Internet of Things Specialization	-

Big Data

Course	Duration
Big Data Specialization	-

Data Mining

Course	Duration
Data Mining specialization	-

Next Goals

• Adding our university page at Linkedin, so in that way we will be able to add OSS University in our Linkedin profile.

References

• Google - Guide for Technical Development
• Coursera
• edX
• MIT Open Courseware