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Course Options for Future Terms

This is a list of ideas for classes that I can add as I progress through OSSP-CS.

Be sure and add the appropriate courses to the appropriate folders as you go along. This file is basically just a dump of ideas.

General Sources of Courses

Anytime

Bu$i₪€$$ 💼

🔴 Accounting

🔴 Customer Acquisition & Retention

BOOKS
  • 1993: Blanchard and Bowles: "Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service"
  • 2003: Mark Stevens: "Your Marketing Sucks: see details inside"
  • 2004: Blanchard, Ballard, and Finch: "Customer Mania! It's Never Too Late to Build a Customer-Focused Company"
  • 2005: Jeffrey Gitomer's "Little Red Book of Selling"
  • 2011: Gary Vaynerchuck: "The Thank You Economy"

🔴 Cyber Risk Management

BOOKS
  • 1989: National Research Council: "Improving Risk Communication"
  • 2016: Grobman & Cerra: "The Second Economy: The Race for Trust, Treasure and Time in the Cybersecurity War"

🔴 Economics, Intro to

BOOKS:
  • 1936: John Maynard Keynes: "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money"
  • N. Gregory Mankiw: Essentials of Economics
  • Henry Hazlitt: Economics in One Lesson
  • Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom
  • Alan Mass: The Case for Socialism
  • Marx & Engels: The Communist Manifesto
  • 2009: Levitt & Dubner: "Super Freakonomics"
COURSES

MIT OCW: Principles of Microeconomics

🔴 Finance, Intro to

PUBLICATIONS
  • U.S. Dept. of Labor EBSA: "Savings Fitness" (blue, on top shelf)

🔴 Game Theory

COURSES:

🔴 Investing

BOOKS
  • 2001: Rappaport & Mauboussin: Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns"
  • 2008: Roger Lowenstein: "Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist"
  • 2012: Robert Kiyosaki: "Rich Dad's Guide to Investing"
  • 2018: Grant Cardone: "How to Create Wealth Investing in Real Estate"

🔴 Managing a Business

BOOKS
  • 1982: Peters & Waterman: "In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies"
  • 1996: Freiberg & Freiberg: "Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success"
  • 2001: Tom DeMarco: "Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency"
  • 2006: Peter F. Drucker: "The Effective Executive"
  • 2007: Timothy Ferris: "The 4-Hour Workweek"
  • 2011: Dave Ramsey: "EntreLeadership"
  • 2017: Mark Moses: "Make Big Happen"
  • 2018: Harvard Business Review: "Entrepreneur's Handbook"

🔴 Managing Humans

BOOKS
  • 1936: Dale Carnegie: "How to Win Friends & Influence People"
  • 1981: Blanchard & Johnson: "The One Minute Manager"
  • 1992: James H. Shonk: "Team-Based Organizations: Developing a Successful Team Environment"
  • 1996: Emmet C. Murphy: "Leadership IQ"
  • 2002: Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee: "Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence"
  • 2002: Jeffrey J. Fox: "How to Become a Great Boss"
  • 2008: Patterson, et al.: "Influencer: The Power to Change Anything"

🔴 Product, Intro to

  • 2001: Michael E. McGrath: "Product Strategy for High-Technology Companies"

🟡 Startups, Intro to

BOOKS
  • 2009: Sam Wyly: "1,000 Dollars & an Idea"
  • 2010: Jack Garson: "How to Build a Business and Sell It for Millions"
  • 2017: Brad Stone: "The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World"
  • 2018: Harvard Business Review: "Entrepreneur's Handbook"
COURSES
  • Y Combinator: Startup School.

𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚄𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝚂𝙲𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 & IT 🖥

🔴 Automation

This course is designed to introduce students to the basics of automation and its role in the modern workplace. The course will cover the fundamental concepts of automation and provide an overview of the tools and techniques used in automation.

BOOKS

TOOLS

  • OpenAI's ChatGPT
  • Python

🔴 CCNA

NetworkChuck Free CCNA Training

🔴 Penetration Testing

BOOKS:
  • 2008: Stuttard & Pinto: "The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws"
  • 2017: Wil Allsopp: Advanced Penetration Testing
COURSES:
  • Hack the Box Academy
  • Hack the Box

🔴 Security+

🔴 Security/Surveillance Systems, Home

Study and assemble a home secuity system with a focus on user control of the data.

🔴 Security/Surveillance Systems, Vehicle

Study and assemble a vehicular secuity system with a focus on user control of the data.

🔴 Solidity Programming

BOOK:

Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Solidity and Ethereum


🄴🄽🄶🄸🄽🄴🄴🅁🄸🄽🄶 ⚙

HAM Radio, Intro to

  • ARRL Courses
  • Join the local ARRL club.
  • Get FCC licensed at Technician or higher. Get a vanity call sign, if you can.

🔴 Make Almost Anything

🔴 Satellite Communications

BOOKS
  • 2008: Steve Ford: "The ARRL Satellite Handbook"

LΛиGцаG乇ѕ 🌍

The languages listed here are strategically chosen due to their particular importance in the context of a cybersecurity career.

🔴 Mandarin I

COURSES
  • Duolingo
BOOKS
  • See BPL selection

🟡 Russian I

COURSES
  • Duolingo
BOOKS
  • See BPL selection

🟡 Spanish I

COURSES
  • Duolingo
BOOKS
  • 1989: Stephen Covey: "Los 7 habitos de la gente altamente efectiva"
  • 1997: Robert Kiyosaki: "Padre Rico Padre Pobre"
  • 2002: George Orwell: "1984" (es)
  • 2007: Steve Miller: "Dibujar Dinosauriuos"
  • More: See BPL selection

𝚳𝚨𝚻𝚮𝚺𝚳𝛬𝚻𝚰₵$ 🧮


𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 🧬

🔴 History of Motherhood

BOOK:
  • Mother Nature: A history of mothers, infants, and natural selection.

🔴 Reproductive Biology

MIT OCW: HST.071: Human Reproductive Biology

🔴 Sperm

MIT OCW: The Science of Sperm

🔴 Universe, Intro to the

BOOKS
  • 1988: Stephen Hawking: "A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to black holes"

MUSIC

🔴 Intro to Music Theory and Practice

BOOKS
  • 1981: Robert L. Garretson: "Conducting Choral Music, Fifth Edition"

𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘, 𝐋𝐀𝐖, & 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 ⚖

🔴 American Elections

🔴 American Law, Intro to

BOOKS
  • 1953: Edwin Patterson: "Jurisprudence: Men and Ideas of the Law"
  • 1977: Reader's Digest: You and the Law: A Practical Guide to Everyday Law and How It Affects You and Your Family, Second Revised Edition
  • 1996: The 90 Second Lawyer: Answers to Common Personal and Business Legal Questions
  • 2017: various: "The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings"

🔴 Environment and Public Health

BOOKS:
  • Dr. Edna L. Negrón: Public Health and the Environment
  • James Collman: Naturally Dangerous
  • Smith & Lourie: Slow Death by Rubber Duck
  • John Brockman, et al: What Should We Be Worried About?
COURSES

🔴 Genetics and Political Views

A study of the research on the impact genetics has on one's political views.

🔴 How to Run for Office

COURSES:

🔴 How to Stage a Revolution

MIT OCW: How to Stage a Revolution

🔴 Law Enforcement, Intro to

COURSES
BOOKS
  • 1983: George Cole: The American System of Criminal Justice, Third Edition
  • 1998: Walker & Wood: Crime Scene Investigations: Real-Life Science Labs for Grades 6-12
  • 2014: Chriss Lyon: A Killing In Capone's Playground: The True Story of the Hunt for the Most Dangerous Man Alive
  • 2018: Bryan Stevenson: Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice

🔴 Libertarianism in History

🔴 New Hampshire Law, Intro to

RESOURCES

𝕻𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖞 & 𝕽𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝕾𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖘 🛐

🔴 Paradise Lost

🔴 Religion, Skepticism, Emotion, and Rationality in Society

BOOKS:
  • 1967: Richard Wurmbrand: "Tortured for Christ"
  • 1982: William j. Murray: "My Life Without God"
  • 1986: Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
  • 1990: Carson & Murphey: "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story"
  • 1995: Carl Sagan: "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
  • 1997: Carl Sagan: "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium"
  • 2002: Rick Warren: "The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth am I Here For?"
  • 2002: Charles Kimball: "When Religion Becomes Evil"
  • 2006: Richard Dawkins: "The God Delusion"
  • 2006: Bobby Henderson: "The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster"
  • 2006: André Comte-Sponville: "The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality"
  • 2006: Jonathan Haidt: "The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom"
  • 2008: Jeff Sharlet: "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"
  • 2010: Dan Ariely: "The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home"
  • 2010: B. R. Myers: "The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters"
  • 2010: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations"
  • 2011: Duncan Watts: "Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us"
  • 2011: Bart D. Ehrman: "Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are"
  • 2014: Sam Harris: "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion"
  • 2019: Max Lucado: "How Happiness Happens"
PROJECTS

🔴 Privacy, Security, and Identity

BOOKS
  • 2010: Hoffman & McGinley: "Identity Theft"
  • 2012: J. J. Luna: "How to Be Invisible"
  • 2017: Claypoole & Payton: "Protecting Your Internet Identity"
  • 2017: Kevin Mitnick: "The Art of Invisibility"

❤️ Fahrenheit Degree

≈ 4-years batchelor's degree

🟥 Term 5

See ./Term-05

🟥 Term 6

🔴 Calculus 1C

MIT 18.01.3x Calculus 1C: Coordinate Systems & Infinite Series.

🔴 Programming Languages Theory

Brown University CS173

🔴 Algorithms

Stanford Coursera
or
Princeton Coursera
or
Udacity CS215

🔴 Computer System Engineering

MIT 6.033

🔴 Introduction to Embedded Systems and Real-Time Systems

[UC Riverside CS120B] (http://cms.cs.ucr.edu/faculty/philip/open_source_courses/CS120B_labs.html)
and/or
[UC Riverside CS122A] (http://cms.cs.ucr.edu/faculty/philip/open_source_courses/CS122A_labs.html)

🔴 Software Engineering

MIT 1.124J
or
UC Berkeley CS169 or Harvard CS164

🔴 Principles of Computing

Rice University Coursera

🟥 Term 7

🔴 Discrete Math for Computer Science

MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science

🔴 Computer Networking

Stanford Networking
or
Udacity UD436

🔴 Mobile Software Development

University of Maryland Coursera (Note: Android platform)
or
Udacity UD585 (Note: iOS platform)

🔴 Programming Languages & Compilers

UC Berkeley CS164
or
MIT 6.035

🔴 Artificial Intelligence

MIT 6.034
or
UC Berkeley CS188

Intel AI Dev Team Adventures

🔴 Parallel Computing

Carnegie Mellon 15-418

🔴 Machine Learning

Carnegie Mellon 10-806

🟥 Term 8

🔴 Electronic Materials and Devices

MIT 3.15.1x Electronic Materials and Devices.

🔴 Network and Computer Systems Security

MIT 6.857 Network and Computer Security. OR MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security.

🔴 Distributed Computer Systems Engineering

MIT .

🔴 Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

MIT 6.875 Cryptography and Cryptnalysis.

🔴 Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager

MIT 15.615 Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager.

🔴 Project: Write letters to faculty

  1. Write a heartfelt message to MIT's OCW team about the impact that OCW has had on your ability to self-educate.
  2. Send messages to each individual instructor that you learned under.

🔴 Plan graduation ceremony

  • Get senior photos. Make them awesome! :)
  • Plan a ceremony.
    • Speech
    • Tribute to family, faculty, etc.
    • Degree presentation
  • Book event
  • Prep & send invites

❤️ Celsius Degree

≈ 6-years master's degree

🟥 Term 9

🔴 Advanced Cryptography

MIT 6.876J Advanced Topics in Cryptography.

🔴 Engineering Risk-Benefit Analysis

MIT ESD.72 Engineering Risk-Benefit Analysis.

🔴 Engineering Ethics

MIT ESD.932 Engineering Ethics

🔴 Startup School

https://www.startupschool.org/dashboard

🟥 Term 10

🟥 Term 11

🟥 Term 12


❤️ Kelvin Degree

🟥 Term 13

🟥 Term 14