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SPEAKER 1: After
completing the CS50 course,

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what would be the best
way for the student who--

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I'm not from the computer science--

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I did not have the
computer science degree.

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I'm a teacher.

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So what would be the best thing?

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To start different other
courses on computer science?

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Maybe to do some logic tasks or
go to the link code, because--

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or actually fill in the gaps
with the books on the theory?

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So how can we move after that?

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SPEAKER 2: Yeah, let me paste
one link that I often recommend.

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Some friends at Princeton teach this
course here, which is freely available.

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I just pasted it into the
chat window on Coursera.

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It's Princeton's introduction
to algorithms, part 1.

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And there's also a part 2.

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That's a very common
next step when you want

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to learn a bit more computing theory
after taking one or more programming

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classes.

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More fundamental than that to
computer science itself is this one.

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I'm going to go ahead and paste
the link of a book on Amazon.

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This link might not
work in all countries,

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but you should still be able
to see the title there--

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by Michael Sipser, who
is a professor at MIT.

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And the book is called "Introduction
to the Theory of Computation."

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This, for those unfamiliar,
really gets to the heart

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of what computer science is and
what is possible with computers.

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And I actually used that book when
I was a student some time ago.

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And Harvard uses it now in
their introductory course--

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or, has over the years.

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And that's a good,
pretty accessible book.

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But you would benefit, certainly, from
doing some of the problems in the book,

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or from a course.

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And [? Brian ?] has taken more courses
more recently, who can, perhaps,

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speak even better to these options.

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BRIAN: You actually stole
my recommendation there.

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I was--

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SPEAKER 2: [INAUDIBLE]

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BRIAN: --also about to paste the Theory
of Computation book by Michael Sipser.

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If theory of computation is
something interesting to you in terms

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of what computers can do, and how you
think about computers a little more

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theoretically, a little
bit more mathematically,

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that's a great book that I
would definitely recommend.

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