[master_yoda_1]

IMHO first you need to become a programmer then you can become a data engineer. So if you need to start by learning data structure then you are doing something wrong. Also the topics suggested in "Algorithms & Data Structures" could easily be skipped, the information is drastically misleading. We should seriously have some fact checker, otherwise this kind of bullshit article keep trending on HN and people keep wasting their time on learning LSM tree (what the fuck is that in the first place).

[markus_zhang]

Can you recommend something else? I'm preparing to go through a full CS education.

[master_yoda_1]

Coding and building teach you more than taking a course or watching a video. If you don't have any programming background, you can enroll in some coursera or udacity courses to start with. Then go through this course http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs106x/, the course reader is really good. After that for data engineering read this book https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications.... Also learn some sql. Take some data, feed into sql light db, and ask question and convert question into query. Becoming good at this takes some time. Be patience. The learning curve is like hokey stick, initial phase might have a dip but it accelerate in the later phase. BY ANY CHANCE DO NOT JOIN A BOOTCAMP.

[markus_zhang]

Thanks. I'm actually in middle of cs106 and indeed the reader is pretty good. I also have the intensive book which I read a bit but think I need more technical muscle for it.