=== Formal studies ===
- * [[HarvardExtensionSchool]] -- Undergraduate courses of **Mathematics** and
+ * [[http://www.extension.harvard.edu/ | Harvard Extension School]] -- Undergraduate courses of **Mathematics** and
**Educational Technologies**.
- * **Unviersità degli Studi di Firenze** -- Attended one term of **Software Engineering**.
- Computer Science exam **30/30 cum laude**. In 1995, I dropped out of the university to
- work for a startup in the emerging field of enterprise networking.
+ * [[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
+ enterprise networking.
- * **Istituto Tecnico Commerciale "A.Volta", Firenze** -- high-school diploma
+ * [[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**.
=== Non-formal studies and self-teaching ===
-Over the years I tried to compensate for lack of proper university-grade
-education by making the local libraries much richer:
+To compensate for the lack of good formal education, I became a good customer of the local libraries:
- * **Compilers**, reading several textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools,
+ * **Compilers**, reading plenty of textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools,
and many others.
* **Algorithms** -- many, including classics such as DonaldKnuth's bible TheArtOfComputerProgramming,
CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still
-brillant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
+ 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.
* **Programming Techniques** -- Countless. Such as SeePlusPlusTemplateMetaprogramming
and the controversial ModernSeePlusPlusDesign by AndreiAlexandrescu.
- My absolute favourite is BrianKernighan's and RobPike's ThePracticeOfProgramming.
+ My absolute favourite is Brian Kernighan's and Rob Pike's [[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/ | The Practice of Programming]].
* **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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