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  * [[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**.
 
  * [[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**.
+ 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.
 
 
  * **Compilers** -- textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools and several others.
 


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  "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
 
  * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which were quite
  "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,
 
  * **Programming Languages** -- All the obvious textbooks such as BjarneStroustrup's
  SeePlusPlusProgrammingLanguage, and many others like the old SeeProgrammingLanguage,