[TheBiv]

Everyone who has shipped a production site knows that codeschool doesn't have a mission to teach you "programming", so much as a stripper does not want to have sex with you. They are both meant to tease and entice you.

Given the author references a site like codeschool, I wish the author would have provided more direction/books/guides on how to become a programmer through knowing the conepts that he lists so that we could have a productive conversation over content rather than a service/business meant to address a giant market need (skilled workers in the CS field).

I can only speak to the merits of this article, it feels like it is just meant to get a rise out of the CS theory side and the non-CS theory side; which is sad.

[Paul_D_Santana]

I agree. I would have liked if the author had provided some ways to learn about these topics.

So then, what is the best website or video series to learn these topics? Wikipedia has a nice list of course, but I'm wondering if anyone here has found a particularly great resource they think their fellow HN members would find valuable?

I wonder somewhat humorously, if CodeSchool created a class to teach these topics, would the author's point be invalidated?

[rubinelli]

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...