This appears to be being re-posted because the book is now available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1792644833

The text used to only be available via a PDF. Highly recommend if you're learning about algorithms, might buy a copy myself just to support Jeff (and add my own notes into the book).

I'd say non-programming fundamentals took about two months at about 4-6 hours a day, with the majority of that dedicated to algorithms and data structures.

I took these two OCW courses: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

And worked my way through these two books: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Robert-Sedgewick-ebook/dp/...

I wrote out my solutions on a whiteboard or pen and paper before typing them into a computer.

Outside of A & DS, I spent some time on operating systems and networking in general. A little bit of probability, but no hardcore discrete math.

There are swaths of areas which I now cover at a slower pace as time allows; compilers, AI, etc.

Algorithms [1] by Robert Sedgewick is particularly well written.

Also, this one [2] is quite good and concise. I believe better suited for someone who is not unfamiliar with classic algorithms (like you).

[1] http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Sanjoy-Dasgupta/dp/00735234...

As an older self-taught engineer who went through interviews last year this is great advice. Other books I found particularly useful were:

Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou and Vazirani:

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Sanjoy-Dasgupta/dp/00735234...

And Elements of Programming Interviews by Aziz, Lee and Prakash:

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Inside...

Whoops, seems I posted the mobile link, here's the desktop site link: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Sanjoy-Dasgupta/dp/00735234...

And here's the uk one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Algorithms-Sanjoy-Dasgupta/dp/007352...