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Read SICP, do all exercises. No, don't simply read the book, you have to do the exercises.

Read Knuth's Concrete Mathematics, do all the exercises you can, but this time this is not a requirement.

Forget about Java related design patterns.

Now you know more about programming and CS than 99% of population. Problem solved.



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