The Computer Science Book: For self-taught developers by Thomas Johnson

You can code. But do you understand what's happening underneath? If you're self-taught or came through a bootcamp, you've felt it: you get the job done, but there are gaps — and the nagging sense that everyone with a CS degree knows far more than you do. Big-O. How memory actually works. What a database actually does. Why distributed systems fail. And now: how machine learning and LLMs actually work. The Computer Science Book closes those gaps. It's a complete, degree-broad computer science education in one readable volume. It's written for working developers. What's inside — 13 chapters from fundamentals to frontier: Theory of computation, algorithms & data structures Computer architecture, operating systems, networking Concurrency and distributed systems Programming languages, databases, compilers Machine learning, deep learning, and AI & large language models — the modern AI foundations most CS books still don't cover Read more