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Reading List

Learning List

- Things I want to learn

2012

July – Dec

Improve Python Skills – develop some web project
Learn Groovy
Refresh UNIX
Learn Clojure (won Clojure Programming book from Java ranch)
Read Theory of Automata
Read Compiler Design
Read Operating Systems
Learn JAX-WS 7 (won book from Java ranch)
Learn Spring (received book Spring in Action as part of training)
~~Learn Git and how to use Github/BitBucket~~ DONE
Learn about MQs and JMSs – focus on differences and when to use which. Also learn about Bridges, etc.
Switch to Linux flavour (either Fedora or Ubuntu)

2013

Learn Scala
Learn Ceylon
Learn Hadoop (bought book on Hadoop)
Refresh C, C++ and Java skills
Learn Ruby
Learn Hibernate
Learn EJB 3.0 and JPA

Reading List:

The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth (Vol 1)
Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation by Hopcraft, Ullman and Motwani
Foundations of Computer Science by Ullman and Aho
Beginning Algorithms by Simon Harris, James Ross
An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata by Peter Linz
Introduction to Computer Theory by Cohen
Basics of Compiler Design by Torben Mogensen
Learning Python
Spring in Action
Junior Physics (Mir Publishers)
Clojure Programming

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