In 1995, I dropped out to work for a startup in the emerging field 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**.
- The track included good amounts of **Electric 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 academic institutions in the '90s, I became a good customer of the local bookstores:
+My favorite books of computer science and software engineering:
* **Compilers** -- textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools and several others.
"Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
* **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which were quite
- theoretical and boring. My favorite will always be AdvancedProgrammingInTheUnixEnvironment.
+ 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** -- Several books, including TcpIpIllustrated. RFCs and technical papers.
+ * **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,
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