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@MichaelT true we have debated breaking it into two branches me do one he do another and compare at the end, one web based with JS node ruby python writing rendering engines are build a browser

@MichaelT I agree but I'm young might as well spend my time doing stuff thats fun and teaches me stuff lol

@Sparticus i have a friend that builds rockets lol

@JimmyHoffa yea haha but I understand @Sparticus point and its a good one

@Sparticus yea lot of good it did lol

we don't want to feel lost again applying for a job just to realize we didn't know crap

@JimmyHoffa @MichaelT completely agree if i ever get a programming job that asked me to write a OS id be very suprised but more so to prove to ourselves that we know our stuff

I see the 3 pinnacle areas as being C, a functional language or scripting language, and JS

@MichaelT well he aspires to end up at google, my goals are just to build cool stuff

well we both have CS degrees technically. We double majored and did the bare minium and the curriculum was all over the place and because of credit from other courses they said we could skip certain things so we were totally lost for a solid year. so we decided to be designers which we did decently but decided programming is where would rather be but we needed to relearn it and know more than writing simple things in a high level language

lol @JimmyHoffa I did say end goals. We are both rather determined individuals

@MichaelT no clue about that yet. That's kind of our final two goals. Implement a simple OS and PL figured it would great learning experience and look good when applying for CS jobs

We have set up some interesting goals in my opinion: we want to do that MINIX OS Book, Write our own micro language interpreter parsing typechecker and all

I like starting with lisp due to the fact I get to wrap my head around why to do things a certain way plus functional seems nice to learn underpinnings of CS

@jozefg Might be lack of experience but C looks really nice. Makes a lot of sense. We tried python originally but we just had so many questions about how things worked figured we should to back to basics and as low as possible without hitting assembly (but one day ;) )

we picked up a copy of The UNIX Programming Environment for cheap looked interesting

so i guess going back to the root of my question, we want to learn Lisp, C, and UNIX and then build up from there. Trying to build a roadmap so while we are on the topic of lisp: start with sicp, where next?

@MichaelT i guess traditional CS theory. fromy my reading first couple courses tackle basic program setup and OO if using java, after that some data structures class on hash tables lists trees etc, algorithms, maybe a class or two on hardware, some discrete math

@all i've noticed that theory is very important also. will sicp cover topics like that or do I need to find another book for that?

@MichaelT there are so many progrmaming languages

@MichaelT alright cool. thanks :)

@jozefg good to know thanks

we've been using Ubuntu with MIT-Scheme and repl.it haha

@jozefg uhhh......lol

attempting to learn lisp

@jozefg me :)

@MichaelT okay

@JimmyHoffa yea thats what we heard figured if its good enough for MIT it's good enough for us

@MichaelT We were both designers who kind of tinkered in programming then realized we cared more about it than making pretty pictures so learned a bit of JS and jQuery but no real fundamentals so we both want to switch to programming fulltime but kind of trying to sprint when we don't know how to stand yet

We were going to start with SICP and scheme

@MichaelT thanks gotta learn how to do all this things in chat lol

so I asked this question the other day and was curious what peoples thoughts might be: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/214899/…