[LRUG] Spring reading list

[Roland Swingler]

Talking of SICP any news of the next compsci book meetup - Tim?

One good book that isn't on the usual lists is Release it! by by
Michael T. Nygard (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/mnee/release-it).
Very practical, encourages you to think more about the environment
your software will eventually end up, has some amusing war stories.

A completely different, 'non-practical' book is The Little Schemer
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/ which is interesting mainly
because of the writing style (the whole book is like a Socratic
dialogue). Like most books that teach scheme, it isn't really about
scheme, but about computation - It will also teach you what the Y
Combinator is.

Both are quite short - you could get through them in a weekend or so.

HTH
Roland

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Anthony Green <Anthony.Green at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 'Practices of an Agile Developer' was the book that 4 years ago turned me on
> to reading other tech books that weren't 'how tos' or language guides
>
> These days I'm reading SICP and watching the Berkley SICP course taught by
> Brian Harvey in iTunes U
>
>
>
>> LRUGers,
>>
>> I've got rather into the habit over the last few years of spending far
>> more time reading tech blogs than tech books. All very up to date but
>> perhaps a little shallow.
>>
>> In an effort to reverse the trend would you be able to suggest a book
>> for my spring reading list that you feel has really changed the way
>> you approach/think about programming.
>>
>> J.
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