It’s a bit of a tall order, I think, to teach yourself computer science, as opposed to computer programming, because of the need to understand particular concepts.

This book does a good job of guiding you through algorithms, data structures and more. As a generic, that is non-education, book, it doesn’t follow the Computing Programme of Study and probably doesn’t dovetail perfectly with the computing curricula in countries other than England. Nevertheless, I think it would be a handy book for the new-to-computing teacher.

I won’t say too much here because I’ve just sent in my review of it to Teach Secondary magazine. My intention is to publish that in these pages in due course.