What is the best alternative to CS50x - HarvardX (edX)?

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score 18 · Answer 1

Hackr.io

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Community trust

Instead of getting a recommendation from a single dev, you get recommendation from the entire programming community. See More

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Recommendation for every programming language/framework/library

You can find Python as well as Jenkins. See More

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Nice filters

Free, Video, Book, Beginner, Advanced, etc. See More

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score 10 · Answer 2

Learn C The Hard Way

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Designed for people new to C

The book covers very basics such as C syntax, idioms, compilations, make files, linkers and how to find and prevent bugs. See More

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Has errors

Includes technical errors throughout the book. See More

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Very practical and hands on

Contains many exercises that will require getting hands dirty very early on. See More

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Can be combined with a video course

A complimentary course is available on Udemy. The course costs $29. See More

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Free

The book is available online for free. See More

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score 8 · Answer 3

C Programming: A Modern Approach

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Challenges your way of thinking

The book really challenges you to think like a programmer by constantly asking questions that force you to solve problems, rather than telling you how to solve the problem and only asking you to write the syntax. See More

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Answers to exercises aren't provided

The exercises throughout the book don't have the exercises provided, which may be a con to beginners. See More

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Written in a very clear, understandable way

The author breaks things down into small pieces and uses examples to explain everything in a very clear way. See More

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score 26 · Answer 4

The C Programming Language (AKA: K&R)

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Well known classic

This book is so well known that it's affectionately called "K & R", after the authors. It's been cited in many other books and is familiar to most, if not all, CS students. See More

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Not for beginners

Assumes familiarity not only with programming concepts but some C language specifics. See More

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It's excerpted from the idea of its creators

This book is written by Dennis Ritchie, who was one of the main people behind the development and design of C and UNIX. See More

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Teaches bad style

The K&R style works for old Unix mainframe command-line programs that exit after a simple task and leave the cleanup to the OS; where input is only from trusted experts; and most functions are only called internally to the program. The environment is very different today. This style will get your server owned by hackers, or crash it due to a memory leak, etc. You will have to unlearn what you've learned from this book to use C correctly in the real world today. See More

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Creative, challenging exercises

The challenges at the end of each chapter do a great job of requiring many of the skills learned up to that point. Completing the challenges is a great way of insuring you understand the material. See More

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Out of Date

Some commands and practices are out of date, so errata and googling is needed while going through the book. See More

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