X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=PersonalEducation;h=294fc6da1860678ba1ba604594db883c7bc8ce92;hp=0e503a9478718a3b7a1467eb8d8c3d928e83af5f;hb=e472b7bd493b7b35508747103790a72c66771d30;hpb=609886b0369055a7c085cf84be7db2e1c582fee2 diff --git a/PersonalEducation b/PersonalEducation index 0e503a9..294fc6d 100644 --- a/PersonalEducation +++ b/PersonalEducation @@ -14,15 +14,14 @@ === 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. @@ -36,13 +35,15 @@ brillant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs". * **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. @@ -51,4 +52,4 @@ brillant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs". 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. \ No newline at end of file