X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=PersonalEducation;h=b12bf2a5954ded4d228923d63cf6bb33bb84f78b;hp=c753e027bb53c1f289f0fa24823fbf27556893cc;hb=bc5aae94bcd1d5f9849a6dc07aa466976f206406;hpb=91adb57187e42362db446d69dc5bf2f79cbf0b21 diff --git a/PersonalEducation b/PersonalEducation index c753e02..b12bf2a 100644 --- a/PersonalEducation +++ b/PersonalEducation @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ 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, @@ -35,13 +35,15 @@ To compensate for the lack of good formal education, I became a good customer of * **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 +52,4 @@ To compensate for the lack of good formal education, I became a good customer of 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