Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?
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#12Programming Perl, 1st Ed. from Larry Wall.
The three great virtues of a programmer were enlightening for a fresh-outta-college beginner.
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#13"The C Programming Language", by Kernighan and Ritchie.
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#14"The Annotated Turing" - I didn't know you could meaningfully intertwine biography and technical analysis like that.
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#15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Fail_at_Almost_Everythi...
Sounds about right. It is called failing forward. Fail forwards, fail fast and keep going.
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#16Data Smart, by John Foreman. Out of print, but you can get it from Abe Books: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/data-smart-using-... Why it is cool? Because instead of R, Gadoop, Spark, Python, whatever... it started explaining data science with excel. The best part for me was optimization.
I loved that book!