I'm Teaching Myself Computer Science from Scratch — Here's My 15/20-Month Plan

To become unhireable-proof in Software Engineering and Cybersecurity, I am committing to a 15–20 month rigorous curriculum. Here is the blueprint. 🧱 Phase 0: Bootstrap CS50x & MIT Missing Semester: Mastering C, Python, SQL, and terminal scripting to get dangerous fast. 🔨 Project - Football Stats Scraper: Building a custom Python data pipeline to scrape, clean, and structure live web data. 🧠 Phase 1: Computational Thinking UC Berkeley CS 61A & MIT Math for CS: Rewiring my logical brain with recursion, higher-order functions, and discrete math proofs. 🔨 Project - 2D Space Invaders Game: Architecting a real-time game loop and factory patterns from scratch without relying on heavy frameworks. ⚙️ Phase 2: Hardware & The Machine Nand to Tetris: The ultimate bottom-up approach to understanding how a computer actually thinks. 🔨 Project - Build a Computer: Constructing a working machine step-by-step, starting purely from basic NAND gates all the way up to a high-level programming language. 🖥️ P