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I am asking not only about learning what is taught in classes for solving ideal problems. I am talking about the real engineering like a hobbyist who actually understands what works in real life and how to build it properly.

Is there anyone on HN, who have never learned programming or CS by taking formal classes, but learned everything by reading books on their own and building stuff that they wanted?

What was the process like? Maybe they were from different major like engineering, physics, maths, biology, social sciences, humanities?

Which is the best resource (book, public course, blogs, etc) to get started in machine and deep learning and then get good at it both as a practitioner and from theoretical understanding?

The ultimate goal is to become a good at implementing models and come up with new ones.

Is there something like teachyourselfCS but for Data Science, ML and DL?

People say that learning mathematics changes your brain. You start to think in new ways. You gain superpower in solving all kinds of problems.

How and when did you realise this power that comes with learning mathematics? What is you favorite math topic?

While self studying mathematics have you worked through any book that made a fundamental shift in your mind about how you viewed math in general and learn new math topics?

Can you write a few lines about those books?

Why do functional programmers hate looping constructs of imperative languages and ignore them as if they don't exist?

I want to learn web programming. Mostly because I will have the full stack to express myself starting from the UI to the functionality (backend).

But, I don't want to start with frameworks. I want to learn vanilla HTML, CS, JS. Frameworks hide many things. I know the DOM is a structured form of data. I want full control through vanilla JS to manipulate and bend that structure at my will.

Where to learn that from? Also I believe learning in this way will give me more understanding about JS frameworks when I study their source code.

Assuming that you are still learning and you learn from new experiences or concepts, what was the most mind blowing concept you learnt that totally changed how you approached programming problems?

Edit: Provide pointers to where others can learn about those concepts