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  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**.
+ in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with a rating of **56 out of 60**.
+ The track included good amounts of **Electric Engineering**.
 
 === Non-formal studies and self-teaching ===
 
-To compensate for the lack of good formal education, I became a good customer of the local libraries:
+To compensate for the lack of good academic institutions in the '90s, I became a good customer of the local bookstores:
 
- * **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 AdvancedProgrammingInTheUnixEnvironment.
+
+ * **Networking** -- Several books, including TcpIpIllustrated. RFCs and technical papers.
 
  * **Programming Languages** -- All the obvious textbooks such as BjarneStroustrup's
  SeePlusPlusProgrammingLanguage, and many others like the old SeeProgrammingLanguage,
@@ -41,9 +39,9 @@ To compensate for the lack of good formal education, I became a good customer of
  GangOfFour's DesignPatterns, UmlDistilled and UmlDesignPatterns.
 
  * **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.
+ [[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.