**Educational Technologies**.
* [[http://www.unifi.it/ | Unviersità degli Studi di Firenze]] -- I attended only one term of
- **Software Engineering** (computer Science exam **30/30 cum laude**).
- In 1995, I dropped out to work for a startup in the emerging field of
+ **Software Engineering** (Computer Science exam **30/30 cum laude**).
+ In 1995, I dropped out to work for a startup in the emerging industry of
enterprise networking.
- * [[http://www.itcvolta.it/it/default.asp | Istituto Tecnico-Commerciale Alessandro Volta]] -- High-school diploma
- in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with a rating of **56 out of 60**.
- This course included a good amount of **Electronic Engineering**.
+ * [[http://www.itcvolta.it/it/default.asp | Istituto Tecnico-Commerciale Alessandro Volta]] -- Diploma
+ in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with a rating of **56 out of 60**. The curriculum included good
+ amounts of **electric engineering**.
-=== Non-formal studies and self-teaching ===
+=== Reading List ===
-To compensate for the lack of good formal education, I became a good customer of the local libraries:
+My favorite books of computer science and software engineering:
- * **Compilers**, reading plenty of textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools,
- and many others.
+ * **Compilers** -- textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools and several others.
* **Algorithms** -- many, including classics such as DonaldKnuth's bible TheArtOfComputerProgramming,
- CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still
- brilliant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
-
- * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which quite
- theoretical and boring. Of course, my favorite will always be AdvancedProgrammingInTheUnixEnvironment.
+ CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still brilliant,
+ "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
- * **Networking** -- Several books, including TcpIpIllustrated, several RFCs and
- technical papers.
+ * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which were quite
+ theoretical and boring. My favorite will always be [[http://www.apuebook.com/|Advanced Programming In The Unix Environment]] by Richard Stevens.
+ I also recommend [[http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/|The Art of Unix Programming]].
+
+ * **Networking** -- My favorite is the immortal [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_Illustrated | TCP/IP Illustrated]] trilogy.
* **Programming Languages** -- All the obvious textbooks such as BjarneStroustrup's
SeePlusPlusProgrammingLanguage, and many others like the old SeeProgrammingLanguage,
* **Software Architecture and Design** -- All the "must-read" classics such as
GangOfFour's DesignPatterns, UmlDistilled and UmlDesignPatterns.
- * **Project Management** -- My favourite certainly is TheMythicalManMonth, but I've
- read a few others such as ExecutionPlainAndSimple.
+ * **Project Management** -- My favourites are TheMythicalManMonth and
+ [[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AntiPatternsBook|AntiPatterns]], but I've also read
+ [[http://www.amazon.com/Waltzing-Bears-Managing-Software-Projects/dp/0932633609|WaltzingWithBears]],
+ [[ExecutionPlainAndSimple]] and a few others.
* **Technical Writing** -- TheElementsOfStyle and DonaldKnuth's TheTexBook are my
favourites on the topics of stylish writing and typesetting.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading DonaldKnuth's ConcreteMathematics and
CambridgeUniversityPress' NumericalRecipes.
- * **Database** -- Relational algebra, principles of schema normalization, SQL.
+ * **Database** -- Relational algebra, principles of schema normalization, SQL.
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