Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

I would buy and look into the following books: # HTTP: The Definitive Guide - O'Reilly Media # Algorithms by Sedgewick # Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen. Check out some Machine Learning books: # Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning # Computer Networks (5th Edition) I would look at the following book if you wanted more Q&A and interview questions: # Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions ... Tutorial memberships: # I would buy a Tuts+ account, they have been very slow in releasing new content (too bad), however they have lots of great Web Development stuff. I would read some other non-technical books: # Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham # The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz # The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change The Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christenen, # Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman # How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie If you wanted to understand some Cloud stuff, look into the Whitepapers from Amazon Web Services: # https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/

I recently got "Hackers and painters" by Paul Graham. I'm still reading but pretty cool so far.

"HACKERS AND PAINTERS" Hands down one of the best books on software development(without any actual code). The best bits are: -It comes from someone who has done some good, really good shit, and owned it out there.(He developed a web based platform a year before Hotmail even came into existence) -All throughout the book , Paul Graham advocates writing good software,good code. That's all!! -The book takes a philosophical approach, but is not "a sacred collection of chants", and is hence, awesome. -Its a collection of his essays , which he has written over years , and hence, traverses changing times and trends. -Though I strongly recommend that one read it page to page, the author himself claims that you can pick up any chapter from anywhere. - He is friends with Robert Morris!!!(Come on! He gets to hang out with the guy who "invented" First Computer WORM on the Internet) The books cleanly talks about and focuses on writing good code and unlike a lot of others, tells why writing code is a craft and not a mere JOB.

She might find inspiration in Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters" http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp... (http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp/1449389554)

among my favorites. Every time you pick a page to read, it's just like watching a sunset; it's never the same. Hackers and painters Gitanjali

Hackers and Painters, especially How to Make Wealth. I grew up overseas, and really didn't have a decent grasp of how the whole money thing worked until I started reading up on economics and money. How to Make Wealth really crystalized a lot for me.