One thing I've not seen yet is a list of books or online resources to take someone from beginner to expert in computer science. I've just seen lists like the submitted list or the lists in the Stack Exchange discussion that phillmv linked to, which are suggestions for books or articles or papers that everyone (in someone's opinion) should have read.
Anyone seen a CS equivalent of either of the following?
That list gives an ordered progression of links to online material meant to take a talented and ambitious person from high school to research level quantum field theory and string theory.
That list starts assuming high school mathematics, and gives a series of stages to go from that to advanced graduate level, giving for each area of mathematics at each stage lists of books and online material appropriate for that stage.
Anyone seen a CS equivalent of either of the following?
1. Gerald 't Hooft, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, maintains this list: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html
That list gives an ordered progression of links to online material meant to take a talented and ambitious person from high school to research level quantum field theory and string theory.
2. The "How to Become a Pure Mathematician (or Statistician)" list here: http://hbpms.blogspot.com/
That list starts assuming high school mathematics, and gives a series of stages to go from that to advanced graduate level, giving for each area of mathematics at each stage lists of books and online material appropriate for that stage.