For August we’ll be reading Neil Ford’s 2014 O’Reilly title, Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax.
… Continue readingRather than focus on specific language features, Functional Thinking looks at a variety of common practices in OOP languages and then shows you how
Here are the choices for the next two meetups of 2018. The two highest-rated books will be the ones we read for our May and August meetings. Look over these selections and make your choices using the form at the …
Continue readingWe’re just over a month away from our next meeting, discussing The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas on March 27. If you’re not familiar with this classic title’s influence on the software industry, check out this interview …
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Our book for March will be the 1999 classic, The Pragmatic Programmer – From Journeyman to Master, by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas.
… Continue readingStraight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of
For our January meetup, we’ll be reading and discussing Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava. For a preview of what the book is like and some background on how and why it was written, here’s a TalkPython podcast from last year …
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January’s book will be Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people (2016), by Aditya Y. Bhargava.
… Continue readingGrokking Algorithms is a fully illustrated, friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems
Here are the choices for the first two meetups of next year. The two highest-rated books will be the ones we read for our January and March meetings. Voting closes on November 7 (election day IRL here in Austin).…
Continue readingA nice review of the book on the Word Yard blog: Code Reads #1: The Mythical Man-Month
… Continue readingThere’s an urgency to The Mythical Man-Month that makes it more immediate, and more satisfying, than most run-of-the-mill business books. Brooks emerged from
October’s book selection is the classic The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Frederick P. Brooks. Originally written in 1975, it was republished with four additional chapters in 1995.
… Continue readingFew books on software project management have been as
Our next meeting is coming up soon: we’ll be talking about Portia Tung’s The Dream Team Nightmare on Tuesday, August 22. Here’s the preface, which explains the format of this unusual book:
… Continue readingWelcome to The Dream Team Nightmare, an agile