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 === 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 industry of
+ enterprise networking.
 
- * **Istituto Tecnico Commerciale "A.Volta", Firenze** -- 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**.
+ * [[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 ===
 
-Over the years I tried to compensate for lack of proper university-grade
-education by making the local libraries much richer:
+My favorite books of CS and engineering:
 
- * **Compilers**, reading several 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
-brillant, "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 [[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** -- 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,
@@ -35,13 +34,15 @@ 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.
@@ -50,4 +51,4 @@ 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.
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