Hi, I’m a first year CS student and this 3 month period of vacations I want to follow a good free course on programming. If it’s possible, I also want to learn how is the process in which a code written in a text editor can become an executable with it’s GUI in the operating system (currently using Linux), because I really have no idea how that works.
Browsing the web for it have become overwhelming and I’m finding trouble in deciding what to follow, and I also need some order in order to learn things.
I would really appreciate if you can tell me if you know any course that meets this requirements.
Download SICP (find with search engine), read through it and do the exercises.
I’m not sure that can be completed in 3 months by most people on their own. But I think it’s a great option anyway. Probably best to use Emacs (Edwin) in doing so.
If OP chooses this option, I like this HTML5 version the best: https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/
It’s fine, just make much progress as you can in the 3 months. It will be good prep for a CS program. It’s also ok to read ahead and so on.