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July 15, 2007
What are you doing for the next 6 months?
Justice Grey has publicly committed to reading 27 developer books in the next 6 months
It's a big undertaking and the question has been asked - when will he get the time to do some programming?
I guess he has some funding!
Anyway, at first glance, the books I would like to get from his list are:
- Beyond Code - Setty
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Fowler
- Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt
I would have to research the rest of the list a bit but I think definitely an algorithm book, more patterns books and more UML will be in my near-future reading list.
It's strange that once you start learning about all this stuff you actually want to learn more - since I started grokking OO and patterns my view of programming has changed immensely. I am actually looking forward to the future and previously hairy application analysis have been simplified.
Looking forward to the next 6 months - the first three are being taken up by my first professional coding role and the following three - who knows!
Looking forward to the positive uncertainty.
Posted by dottie at July 15, 2007 2:37 PM
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I basically spend my core 8 hours on work and then another 2 hrs per day reading. More on weekends, which is how I get that done (which unfortunately hasn't left a lot of time for blogging or replying to blog posts...maybe I should've thought about trying to improve my time management over 6 months ;) )
Posted by: Justice~! at August 14, 2007 6:40 PM
Thanks for that Justice, I have the advantage of about 40 minutes of commuting on public transport which I am using to work my way through my MCTS training kits (reading first - coding later).
Also, now that I have fully (almost) transitioned from freelance web development to contract development (there is a difference!) I won't have to work crazy hours to accommodate my clients crazy scheduling. That means I'll be doing an hour of reading in the evening too.
Do you read a lot of blogs too? I don't tend to count them as 'study' but I do find that I learn a great deal from them (for instance your blog posts on explaining programming to your granny - make me smile!)
p.s.: Justice Grey visited my site! w00t! AND on my birthday :)
Posted by: Dottie at August 18, 2007 1:09 PM