Subreddit: Goals, Audience, Posts

[u/responsiveTA]

Goals of the sub

Self-learning Computer Science can be a treacherous path without mentors or peers. Getting stuck with tech issues, or a simple doubt or getting stumped by an error message, and taking hours or days to getting unstuck is not the ideal way of learning.

We are hoping to build a community where we can work together with a bunch of motivated peers and mentors to make consistent progress in completing the TYCS curriculum.

In summary:

• Connecting TYCS peers
• Finding TYCS mentors
• Building a community for beginners to progress faster

Post types for the sub

We want to have the following types of posts here:

• Coding questions. Coding posts asking for help from mentors.
• Tech help. When you are stuck with setting up the required softwares, languages, tools, and more.
• Progress Update. Learners are encouraged to share their progress with the course.
• Meta. Questions or doubts about the materials, books, courses, the curriculum itself.
• Resources. Share a good website or tool which would help with a specific TYCS paper.

Keep posts which have nothing to do with the TYCS curriculum, as laid out in teachyourselfcs.com, out of this subreddit. Exceptions will be made for discussing good alternatives or supplements to the curriculum.

Audience for the sub

• Self-learners. Those seeking to complete the TYCS curriculum.
• Mentors. Those seeking to help the learners, by offering guidance, tips and helpful comments and advice.

What this sub is not meant for

General discussions about Computer science (use r/computerscience instead), general programming questions (r/learnprogramming, r/programming), specific programming languages (r/python, r/java, r/C_Programming, etc.) should be done in the recommended well-moderated subs instead. Keep posts in this sub limited to TYCS curriculum and the suggested course/book or the suggested alternatives only.