Books read until March 2018
2 min readMar 5, 2018
One of my new year resolutions was to read 30 books during this year. Maybe it is a little bit ambitious but let’s try it. My idea (not so original) is to post every month the books I’ve read, to keep a count and make a small comment about book.
So here I go, these are for January and February:
- An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus. As the title says, it’s a really good intro to FP. I liked the approach of building (more or less) a whole language using just Lambda Calculus from the ground.
- Writing Idiomatic Python. This year I started working with Python and my friends recommended me this book in order to see some common idioms in Python. The book is really short, but it has some nice gotchas.
- Humans vs Computers. I saw this book recommended in Twitter by Uncle Bob and it got my attention. It is full of anecdotes of computer failures due to wrong assumptions from the programmer, so it’s at the same time funny and makes you take into account somethings the next time you are developing a form in your application.
- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever. I read Remote in December and I wanted to read this one too. I was already familiarised with some of the ideas, but it was a nice reading.
- The DevOPS Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations. I am lucky because I’m working in a client that more or less follows the DevOps mindset but I think this is a must read.
And I think that’s it. I also started reading some other books about Python and C# but I didn’t have the time to finish them. Right now I’m on my way with The Craftsman and trying to decide what to read next.