[pretzell]

I strongly recommend OSSU! Both books and MOOCs have their place, and sometimes a MOOC is easier to stay motivated, provided a schedule, and exercises of appropriate number and difficulty.

I really like reading books too, but sometimes the completion-ist part of me is too strong and I shouldn't really do all the exercises.

[paulcarroty]

In comparison with teachyourselfcs OSSU looks lame, serious. Structured badly, tons of links & strange YouTube channels. TYCS has chapters and 2-3 best resources about, ideal for this case.

For beginners I highly recommend Harvard CS50, the best of the best course available for free and paid too.

[SZJX]

I agree that there seem to be a variety of links, but most of the courses linked there are of very high quality and I don't seem to see the "YouTube channels" that you're referring to. One thing I was unsatisfied with with TYCS is how it lists Crafting Compilers for the compilers/PL section of the curriculum. I would argue that more important than the specifics about compilers is a high-level understanding of various ideas in programming language design, and be able to understand the building blocks of different languages and compare the trade-offs of using one language compared with another. Of course, if you go through SICP as an entry point to computing, as suggested in TYCS, then you might be somewhat better off, but it's still not the same as a dedicated course on PL itself.

Dan Grossman from the University of Washington has an excellent course Programming Languages on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages/, which I think would be far more relevant to modern programmers than studying compilers specifically. And I'm glad to see this course listed under the "Core Programming" section of OSSU.

[mxschumacher]

It's remarkable how the course goes from zero to several complete projects in different domains and technologies in just a few weeks. CS50 is a real stepping stone.