BarCamp 2009 Book List

[Josh More]

Here is the book list discussed at BarCamp 2009. Thanks to Brigham
Hoegh for scribing for us.

Books

Related:
1. Amazon Wish List --you can share book lists with friends
2. Audible.com
3. the Teaching Company

Brandon
1. Predictably Irrational -- a study of behavioral economics
2. How We Decide-- deep into how brains help us make decisions
3. The Black Swan- about uncertainty, talks a lot about randomness and
how to predict the future
4. The World is Flat- Thomas Friedman-- about globalization and the
internet age talks a bout different areas: education, technology
(available for free as an audio book)
5. Outliers-- by Malcolm Gladwell --people have intrinsic ability and
luck and it requires both to be wildly successful

Josh More
1. The Science of Fear -- the way humans think about fear
2. Let's Get Real or Lets Not Play - the sales sale
3. Getting Things Done
4. What the CEO wants You to Know
5. Getting to Yes-- about negotiation (says that book has changed his
life)
6. The Art of Living - And other classics on philosophy and life.

Nick Parker
1. Closure- based on JVM introduces interesting aspects to programming
languages
2. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence
3. Coders at Work- Peter Siebel -- interviews programmers and walks
through life as it relates to that

Chris Freeman
1. Programming Scala
2. The art of Lean O'Rielly
3. Amelia and the Case of the Missing Toy -- children's book
4. Easy to Love, Hard to Discipline

Brigham Hoegh
1. Travels of a T-shirt in a Global Economy-- intro to globalization
and trade, good for high school students
2. Postcards from Tomorrow Square-- recently published book on China
3. Interpreter of Maladies -- fiction

Mark
1. Twin Cities Noir- short stories about twin cities
2. Every Man a Tiger
3. Godel, Escher, Bach
4. Sin in the Second City - a brothel in Chicago
5. Foundations of Comp. Biology
6. Cognitive Neuropsychology

Samantha
1. Blink -- Malcolm Gladwell
2. Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It- by people who work at Best Buy
talks about how employers treat employees like children, and how to
change that
3. Crossing the Unknown Sea-- finding your place in the world;
determining what you are passionate about and how to fit it into your
life
4. Elsewhere U.S.A. --exploring human behavior

Keith Dahlby
1. The Bourne Series - Fictional -- Robert Ludlum
2. Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
3. C # in Depth -- Jim Skeet
4. PowerShell in Action -- Bruce Payette
5. F # for Scientists - Jon Harrop

Geoff Wood --Silicon Prairie News Blog
1. Radical Leap -- Farbor
2. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell-- is an independent movie that just
came out
3. Good to Great --Jim Collins
4. The Four-Hour Work Week-- how to design your lifestyle
5. Killing Yourself to Live

Shane
1. I Will Teach You to be Rich -- about personal finance, easy to read
2. A Short History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson --about
everything
3. The Light of Other Days -- C. Clarke
4. Thinkers -- famous philosophers and summary of their teachings
5. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair -- about the industrial revolution

Ryan Stille
1. The Pragmatic Programmer
2. My Job Went to India -- tips about being a professional software
developer
3. Apache Security
4. Time Management for System Administrators-- prioritizing

James
1. The Passionate Programmer
2. Joelon Software
3. More Joelon Software
4. Programmers at Work -- interviews of programmers
5. Andrew Tanenbaum OS book
6. James Clearwater

David Body
1. The Well-Grounded Rubyist -- David Black - introduction to Ruby
programming language, but good even if you have prior knowledge
2. Crytonomicon -- fiction -- Neal Stephenson

Luke Amdor
1. Getting Things Done
2. Pragmatic Programmer
3. Neuromancer
4. Daemon

Sud
1. The Head First Books -- lots of pictures
2. Object Thinking

Kenny Younger
1. How to Win Friends and Influence People -- Dale Carnegie
2. Getting Things Done - David Allen
4. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Freedom
5. Atlas Shrugged
6. TechNerd blog


1. The Productive Programmer - by a consultant -monkey example don't
touch the bananas
2. Angels and Demons- Dan Brown