fun reading for winter break

[Constantin Berzan]

Dear members of the CS Reading Group,

We've had our last meeting of the semester today, and now we're
looking for something fun to read over winter break. Please reply to
this message with any suggestions.

Ideas:
* "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!" -- this is not a CS book, but I
can personally attest that it is a lot of fun to read :)
* a subset of chapters from "Code Complete"
* "Joel on Software" -- this is a printed collection of essays; I'm
not sure how many of them are freely available online
* "Programming Pearls" by Bentley
* "Clean Code" by Martin
* "Design Patterns" by Gamma et al?
* Phil suggested "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" today

Comments and more suggestions are welcome!

Good luck with finals, final projects, applications, and anything else
that might make this a tough semester ;)
-Constantin

[Phil Tang]

I'd vote for Joel on Software or the subset of Code Complete.

Phil

-Constantin

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[Ben Schwalb]

I'd be interested in Code Complete, Programming Pearls, or Clean Code.

The one thing is, the other books may have this too idk, but what interested me about Clean Code was the idea of having examples of bad code and showing you how they went about refactoring it. I feel like that's something that we don't learn in school that could be useful, so I'd like to read something with that in it.

[Constantin Berzan]

It seems that people converged on wanting to read Code Complete. The
book is structured into 7 parts, and I think they can be read on their
own, without reading the entire book cover-to-cover. So feel free to
read any parts / chapters that interest you, and we will get together
in January to discuss what we've learned :)

Happy holidays everyone!
-Constantin

[Ben Schwalb]

For those of you who don't know about this already, Code Complete is available for free through Tufts' Safari Online subscription. I don't know if this link will work if you're not at Tufts/logged in to the proxy already but:
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/book/software-engineering-and-development/0735619670?bookview=overview

-Constantin