Awesome. Step 1-4 complete. The rest?........Its gonna take me a while.

Here's a list I saved:

CS51 http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2013/02/23371/publicationListing.shtml CS61 (Optimizing speed) http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2013/01/13836/publicationListing.shtml CS 76 (Building Mobile Applications) RECOMMENDED http://cs76.tv/2012/spring/ CS E-1 (Understanding computers and the internet) RECOMMENDED http://computerscience1.tv/2011/spring/ CS164 (Mobile Software Engineering) RECOMMENDED http://cs164.tv/2012/spring/ CS75 (Web programming): RECOMMENDED https://www.cs75.net/Lectures CS259 (XML with Java) RECOMMENDED http://cs259.tv/2007/fall/ CS121 http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2013/01/12161/publicationListing.shtml CS169.1X (Software as a service) https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/CS169.1x/2013_Spring/about CS169.2X (Software as a service) https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/CS169.2x/2013_Spring/about CS171 (Visualization): http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2012/02/22872/publicationListing.shtml CS188.1X (Artificial Intelligence) https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/CS188.1x/2013_Spring/about CS184.1X (Foundations of computer graphics) https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/CS184.1x/2013_Spring/about CS191x (Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation): https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/CS191x/2013_Spring/about CS255 (HTML5 Game Development): http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs255/CourseRev/1 CS291 (Interactive Rendering) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs291/CourseRev/1 CS344 (Parallel Programming): https://www.udacity.com/course/cs344 CS348 (Functional Hardware Verification): http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs348/CourseRev/1 MIT6.00x: https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00x/2013_Spring/about Algorithms - Design and analysis https://www.coursera.org/course/algo Algorithms - Part 1 https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI Algorithms - Part 2 https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partII M101P (MongoDB for Developers - If you know Python): https://education.10gen.com/courses/10gen/M101P/2013_Spring/about M101J (MongoDB for Java) https://education.10gen.com/courses/10gen/M101J/2013_Spring/about M102 (After you've learned MongoDB 101): https://education.10gen.com/courses/10gen/M102/2013_Spring/about Semantic Web Technologies: https://openhpi.de/course/semanticweb Natural Language Processing https://www.coursera.org/course/nlangp Artificial Intelligence Planning https://www.coursera.org/course/aiplan Compilers https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers Functional Programming principles in Scala https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun Introduction to Logic https://www.coursera.org/course/intrologic Probabilistic Graphical Models https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm Computer Security http://www.security-class.org/ ER22x (Justice) https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/ER22x/2013_Spring/about Computer Vision https://www.coursera.org/course/computervision Discrete Optimization https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization Web Intelligence and Big Data https://www.coursera.org/course/bigdata Learn to program - Crafting Quality Code https://www.coursera.org/course/programming2 Startup Engineering https://www.coursera.org/course/startup Intro to systematic program design https://www.coursera.org/course/programdesign FRENCH Class Intro to Object Oriented Programming in Java https://www.coursera.org/course/java-fr Computer Science 101 https://www.coursera.org/course/cs101 Introduction to interactive programming in Python https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython Creative Serious and Playful Science of Android Apps https://www.coursera.org/course/androidapps101 The Hardware/Software Interface https://www.coursera.org/course/hardware Software defined Networking https://www.coursera.org/course/sdn Malicious Software and its malicious economy: https://www.coursera.org/course/malsoftware VLSI CAD : Logic to Layout https://www.coursera.org/course/vlsicad General game playing https://www.coursera.org/course/ggp Cryptography 2 https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2 Coding the matrix (Linear Algebra through computer science) https://www.coursera.org/course/matrix Automata https://www.coursera.org/course/automata CS101 (Building a search engine) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101 CS212 (Design of computer programs) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs212 CS215 (Crunching social networks) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs215/CourseRev/1 CS222 (Making Math Matter) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs222/CourseRev/1 CS253 (Building a blog) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253 CS258 (Making software fail) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs258/CourseRev/1 CS259 (Software debugging and automation) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs259/CourseRev/1 CS262 (Building a browser) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs262 CS313 (Dealing with challenging problems) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs313/CourseRev/1 CS373 (Programming a robotic car) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs373 CS387 (Applied Cryptography) http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs387 In memory data management https://openhpi.de/course/inmemorydatabases Intro to databases https://class.stanford.edu/db/Winter2013/preview/ UNSW Computing 1 (The art of programming) https://www.openlearning.com/courses/unsw/computing1 Game Theory https://www.coursera.org/course/gametheory Learning from data (Machine learning) http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html Human computer interaction http://hcicourse.com/ Programming languages https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang Intro to computer networks https://www.coursera.org/course/comnetworks CS106A http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=824a47e1-135f-4508-a5aa-866adcae1111

They forgot to mention Egyptian style curly braces.

This is great stuff. I'm more of an ops guy (but with compsci) this is solid advice for a path into development as ops becomes more automated.

This is happening fast so I'm working hard through this path and it's working so far!

Code in at least one object oriented programming language: C++, Java, or Python

I always have to fight computer engineers that claim to program in OOP but in reality it is the biggest abuse of OOP I have seen. MFC is one such example, the biggest OOP disaster that I have ever witnessed but with the .NET framework they have it spot on.