How to become a software engineer from scratch in 2026
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This is a rather intense roadmap that's focused on cultivating your ability to think and understand the deep fundamentals. I think there's too many courses and bootcamps that just explain how to build basic stuff with frameworks. Frankly AI can generate these in 10min. On the other hand, if you understand the deep fundamentals you'll be able to learn on your own, and quickly. You'll be able to come up with solutions to difficult problems, orchestrate AI agents effectively, and your productivity is just going to skyrocket with AI. But, developing that is hard. You will struggle. You will want to give up. You will question whether this is worth the time. Don't give up. You only fail if you give up.
Resources mentioned in the video:
Beginning and intermediate algebra http://www.wallace.ccfaculty.org/book...
How to prove it https://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-Stru...
MOOC26 https://programming-26.mooc.fi/
MIT Calculus 1 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-01-sin...
MIT 6042 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-042j-ma...
MIT 6006 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-int...
CLRS https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-A...
Introduction to the theory of computation https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-T...
Linear algebra done right https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra...
Analysis 1 https://link.springer.com/book/10.100...
Algebra https://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Michae...
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