3 * [[http://www.extension.harvard.edu/ | Harvard Extension School]] -- Undergraduate courses of **Mathematics** and
4 **Educational Technologies**.
6 * [[http://www.unifi.it/ | Unviersità degli Studi di Firenze]] -- I attended only one term of
7 **Software Engineering** (Computer Science exam **30/30 cum laude**).
8 In 1995, I dropped out to work for a startup in the emerging industry of
11 * [[http://www.itcvolta.it/it/default.asp | Istituto Tecnico-Commerciale Alessandro Volta]] -- Diploma
12 in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with a rating of **56 out of 60**. The curriculum included good
13 amounts of **electric engineering**.
17 My favorite books of CS and engineering:
19 * **Compilers** -- textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools and several others.
21 * **Algorithms** -- many, including classics such as DonaldKnuth's bible TheArtOfComputerProgramming,
22 CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still brilliant,
23 "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
25 * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which were quite
26 theoretical and boring. My favorite will always be [[http://www.apuebook.com/|Advanced Programming In The Unix Environment]] by Richard Stevens.
27 I also recommend [[http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/|The Art of Unix Programming]].
29 * **Networking** -- My favorite is the immortal [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_Illustrated | TCP/IP Illustrated]] trilogy.
31 * **Programming Languages** -- All the obvious textbooks such as BjarneStroustrup's
32 SeePlusPlusProgrammingLanguage, and many others like the old SeeProgrammingLanguage,
33 ThinkingInJava, and dozens of C++ books.
35 * **Programming Techniques** -- Countless. Such as SeePlusPlusTemplateMetaprogramming
36 and the controversial ModernSeePlusPlusDesign by AndreiAlexandrescu.
37 My absolute favourite is Brian Kernighan's and Rob Pike's [[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/ | The Practice of Programming]].
39 * **Software Architecture and Design** -- All the "must-read" classics such as
40 GangOfFour's DesignPatterns, UmlDistilled and UmlDesignPatterns.
42 * **Project Management** -- My favourites are TheMythicalManMonth and
43 [[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AntiPatternsBook|AntiPatterns]], but I've also read
44 [[http://www.amazon.com/Waltzing-Bears-Managing-Software-Projects/dp/0932633609|WaltzingWithBears]],
45 [[ExecutionPlainAndSimple]] and a few others.
47 * **Technical Writing** -- TheElementsOfStyle and DonaldKnuth's TheTexBook are my
48 favourites on the topics of stylish writing and typesetting.
50 * **Numerical Methods** -- I'm sorry to have quite a thin mathematical background.
51 Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading DonaldKnuth's ConcreteMathematics and
52 CambridgeUniversityPress' NumericalRecipes.
54 * **Database** -- Relational algebra, principles of schema normalization, SQL.