[votr]

I'd say non-programming fundamentals took about two months at about 4-6 hours a day, with the majority of that dedicated to algorithms and data structures.

I took these two OCW courses: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

And worked my way through these two books: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Robert-Sedgewick-ebook/dp/...

I wrote out my solutions on a whiteboard or pen and paper before typing them into a computer.

Outside of A & DS, I spent some time on operating systems and networking in general. A little bit of probability, but no hardcore discrete math.

There are swaths of areas which I now cover at a slower pace as time allows; compilers, AI, etc.

[questionr]

just to confirm, you completed BOTH MIT algorithm courses and BOTH algorithm books, in the span of 2-months, including completing all the exercises/algorithms?

that seems like an incredibly short amount of time given the content. But if true, congrats! and please let me know your secret!

[slinger]

Thank you for your reply. I'm currently studying CS fundamentals as well. I'm taking an excellent operating system class from https://www.ops-class.org and I recommend to everyone that wants to learn this stuff.

[fsloth]

What makes you categorize algorithms as non-programming? Isn't it like saying rhythm and melody are non-musical concepts?

[mpwoz]

Not OP, but maybe "coding" is a better term: they are language-agnostic fundamentals that don't change as quickly as the tools and frameworks we use daily as "programmers"