[cdelahousse]

I'm in my last year of Comp-Sci. I started the program as a self taught adult. I can say that very little I've learned in school has been useful for the internships and jobs I've since had. That being said, I would never trade the CS experience for anything. It gave me context and a greater understanding of the field. I can now tackle harder problems because the program gave me the tools to do so.

But this is all stuff you can learn on your own. Assuming you know how to program already, my suggestion is find out what a local university teaches 2nd year students. Find their curriculum and see the classes they offer.

Typically, 2nd year is when you go beyond the basics of programming and start scratching the surface of really cools stuff like fundamental algorithms and data structures. If you can learn this stuff, you'll have enough context to determine what else you need to learn.

FYI, here's an amazing open source textbook on data structures: http://opendatastructures.org/

[gits1225]

Another excellent book on Alogorithms and Datastructures: http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index... . Seriously, there are a lot of very high quality books being released for free past couple of years, especially by teachers.