3 * Undergraduate courses of Mathematics and Educational Technologies at the
4 HarvardExtensionSchool (2009).
6 * Attended one term of Software Engineering course at Unviersita' degli
7 Studi di Firenze in 1994. Computer Science exam **30/30 cum laude**.
8 In 1995 I dropped out of the university to accept a job as an
9 EmployedWorker for a small company, and a few months later for SeacCompany.
11 * Undergraduate diploma in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with
12 a rating of **56 out of 60**. Obtained in 1993 at the Istituto Tecnico
13 Commerciale "A.Volta", Firenze. This course included a good amount of
14 **Electronic Engineering**.
16 === Non-formal studies and self-teaching ===
18 Over the years I tried to compensate for lack of proper university-grade
19 education by making the local libraries much richer:
21 * **Compilers**, reading several textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools,
24 * **Algorithms** -- many, including classics such as DonaldKnuth's bible TheArtOfComputerProgramming,
25 CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still
26 brillant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
28 * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which quite
29 theoretical and boring. Of course, my favorite will always be AdvancedProgrammingInTheUnixEnvironment.
31 * **Networking** -- Several books, including TcpIpIllustrated, several RFCs and
34 * **Programming Languages** -- All the obvious textbooks such as BjarneStroustrup's
35 SeePlusPlusProgrammingLanguage, and many others like the old SeeProgrammingLanguage,
36 ThinkingInJava, and dozens of C++ books.
38 * **Programming Techniques** -- Countless. Such as SeePlusPlusTemplateMetaprogramming
39 and the controversial ModernSeePlusPlusDesign by AndreiAlexandrescu.
40 My absolute favourite is BrianKernighan's and RobPike's ThePracticeOfProgramming.
42 * **Software Architecture and Design** -- All the "must-read" classics such as
43 GangOfFour's DesignPatterns, UmlDistilled and UmlDesignPatterns.
45 * **Project Management** -- My favourite certainly is TheMythicalManMonth, but I've
46 read a few others such as ExecutionPlainAndSimple.
48 * **Technical Writing** -- TheElementsOfStyle and DonaldKnuth's TheTexBook are my
49 favourites on the topics of stylish writing and typesetting.
51 * **Numerical Methods** -- I'm sorry to have quite a thin mathematical background.
52 Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading DonaldKnuth's ConcreteMathematics and
53 CambridgeUniversityPress' NumericalRecipes.
55 * **Database** -- Relational algebra, principles of schema normalization, SQL.